Update to Gradle 8.8 (#13584)

[reta]

Description

Update to Gradle 8.8 (#13584)

Related Issues

Resubmitting #13584

Check List

• Functionality includes testing.
• API changes companion pull request created, if applicable.
• Public documentation issue/PR created, if applicable.

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[github-actions]

❕ Gradle check result for e57ce06: UNSTABLE

Please review all flaky tests that succeeded after retry and create an issue if one does not already exist to track the flaky failure.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 40.42553% with 28 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 71.62%. Comparing base (b15cb0c) to head (738a1c9).
Report is 420 commits behind head on main.

Files	Patch %	Lines
...n/java/org/opensearch/gradle/util/GradleUtils.java	0.00%	9 Missing ⚠️
.../opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java	61.53%	5 Missing ⚠️
...ensearch/gradle/precommit/ThirdPartyAuditTask.java	0.00%	5 Missing ⚠️
...ensearch/gradle/tar/SymbolicLinkPreservingTar.java	0.00%	3 Missing ⚠️
...ternal/InternalDistributionArchiveSetupPlugin.java	0.00%	2 Missing ⚠️
...e/precommit/DependencyLicensesPrecommitPlugin.java	71.42%	2 Missing ⚠️
...earch/gradle/precommit/DependencyLicensesTask.java	71.42%	1 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

@@             Coverage Diff              @@
##               main   #14182      +/-   ##
============================================
+ Coverage     71.42%   71.62%   +0.20%     
- Complexity    59978    62017    +2039     
============================================
  Files          4985     5117     +132     
  Lines        282275   291712    +9437     
  Branches      40946    42168    +1222     
============================================
+ Hits         201603   208930    +7327     
- Misses        63999    65564    +1565     
- Partials      16673    17218     +545     

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[github-actions]

❌ Gradle check result for 6ede12d: FAILURE

Please examine the workflow log, locate, and copy-paste the failure(s) below, then iterate to green. Is the failure a flaky test unrelated to your change?

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❌ Gradle check result for 16d3868: FAILURE

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❌ Gradle check result for 9ef3cc1: FAILURE

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❌ Gradle check result for 96fd05d: FAILURE

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❌ Gradle check result for 275f1a1: FAILURE

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❌ Gradle check result for 265ddfc: FAILURE

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❌ Gradle check result for ec0b382: FAILURE

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[reta]

❌ Gradle check result for ec0b382: FAILURE

#14270

[github-actions]

✅ Gradle check result for ec0b382: SUCCESS

[github-actions]

❕ Gradle check result for 738a1c9: UNSTABLE

Please review all flaky tests that succeeded after retry and create an issue if one does not already exist to track the flaky failure.

[reta]

@dblock apologies for a noise, seems like the issues we've been facing are solved now, I did builds across all plugins and do not see any Gradle related failures anymore