Incorrect gradle wrapper configuration being pulled when creating a new project

[PedroPerpetua]

Description

For React Native version 0.76.6 & 0.77.0, the gradle version was bumped to 8.11.1 from 8.10.2 (related commit). However, creating a new React Native project using this CLI (npx @react-native-community/cli init RnDiffApp --version 0.77.0, for example) will generate the android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file wrong, still using the old version.

This issue reflects in the rn-diff-purge project, which in turn also causes trouble in the upgrade-helper for people trying to upgrade to these versions, as this change is not accurately reflected there.

Reproducible Demo

Just create a new project on either version (0.76.6 or 0.77.0) and check the generated android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file for the gradle version.

[barbosadev-dws]

there are a commit in react-native lib to fix this issue in next release.
react/react-native@490db92

[PedroPerpetua]

there are a commit in react-native lib to fix this issue in next release. facebook/react-native@490db92

The commit linked has already been merged and released on React Native; issue seems to be that, for some reason, npx @react-native-community/cli init is not properly including this change.

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue in the past 3 months, so it has been marked as stale and it will be closed automatically if no further activity occurs in the next 7 days.