Pin Gradle to <9.4 (incompatible with React Native 0.85.3)#37
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Gradle >=9.4 bundles a Kotlin 2.3.x stdlib, but RN 0.85.3's bundled gradle-plugin is compiled with Kotlin 2.1.20, which cannot read Kotlin 2.3 metadata — the build fails compiling the RN settings-plugin. 9.3.1 (Kotlin 2.2.21) is the highest working version. Stops Renovate from re-proposing the broken upgrade (PR #34) until React Native ships a plugin built with newer Kotlin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
Renovate opened #34 to bump Gradle 9.3.1 → 9.5.1, but it fails CI (
Android assembleDebug) and cannot be made to pass with the current React Native version.React Native 0.85.3's bundled
@react-native/gradle-pluginis compiled with Kotlin 2.1.20, whose compiler can only read Kotlin metadata up to 2.3. Every Gradle ≥9.4 bundles a Kotlin 2.3.x stdlib that leaks onto the settings-plugin compile classpath, so the build dies compiling the RN plugin:Verified locally across versions:
9.3.1 — the version already in use — is the highest Gradle compatible with RN 0.85.3.
Change
Add a
renovate.jsonpackage rule pinning Gradle to<9.4.0so Renovate stops re-proposing the broken upgrade. Closes #34. The ceiling should be raised once React Native ships a gradle-plugin built with Kotlin ≥2.3.🤖 Generated with Claude Code