Upgrade Gradle and its plugins

Signed-off-by: Fabio Di Fabio <fabio.difabio@consensys.net>

Author: fab-10

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - Update discovery library to 25.4.0 [#8635](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/8635)
 - Increase default target-gas-limit to 60M for Ephemery [#8622](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/8622)
 - Estimate gas on pending block by default [#8627](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/8627)
+- Upgrade Gradle to 8.14 and related plugins [#8638](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/8638)
 
 ## 25.5.0
 ### Breaking Changes

acceptance-tests/tests/build.gradle

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
  */
 
 plugins {
-  id 'org.web3j' version '4.12.2'
-  id 'org.web3j.solidity' version '0.5.2'
+  id 'org.web3j' version '4.14.0'
+  id 'org.web3j.solidity' version '0.6.0'
 }
 
 web3j { generatedPackageName = 'org.hyperledger.besu.tests.web3j.generated' }

acceptance-tests/tests/shanghai/build.gradle

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 plugins {
-  id 'org.web3j' version '4.12.2'
-  id 'org.web3j.solidity' version '0.5.2'
+  id 'org.web3j' version '4.14.0'
+  id 'org.web3j.solidity' version '0.6.0'
 }
 
 jar { enabled = true }

build.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
-
 import com.github.jk1.license.filter.LicenseBundleNormalizer
 import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 import groovy.transform.Memoized
@@ -23,15 +22,15 @@ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
 import java.util.regex.Pattern
 
 plugins {
-  id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '7.0.2'
+  id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '7.0.3'
   id 'com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report' version '2.9'
   id 'com.jfrog.artifactory' version '5.2.5'
-  id 'me.champeau.jmh' version '0.7.2' apply false
-  id 'net.ltgt.errorprone' version '4.1.0'
+  id 'me.champeau.jmh' version '0.7.3' apply false
+  id 'net.ltgt.errorprone' version '4.2.0'
   id 'maven-publish'
   id 'jacoco'
   id 'jacoco-report-aggregation'
-  id 'org.sonarqube' version '6.0.1.5171'
+  id 'org.sonarqube' version '6.2.0.5505'
 }
 
 sonarqube {

ethereum/evmtool/build.gradle

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 plugins {
-  id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.10.2'
+  id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.10.6'
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'java-library'

gradle/verification-metadata.xml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME