Update Gradle to 9.7.1

[AlexeyKuznetsov-DD]

What Does This Do

• Updates the Gradle wrapper from 9.7.0 to 9.7.1 using the official binary distribution checksum.
• Aligns the GitLab Gradle cache version and Gradle smoke-test version fixtures with 9.7.1.
• Retains the SofaRPC Netty alignment constraint and updates its comment to document why Gradle 9.7's enhanced graph ordering is not enabled globally yet.

Motivation

Adopt the Gradle 9.7.1 patch release while keeping every Gradle version pin synchronized.

Gradle fixed the dependency traversal issue tracked in gradle/gradle#38057 behind the ENHANCED_GRAPH_ORDERING feature preview. Enabling that preview globally is not safe for this build yet because several tests intentionally use fat JARs alongside newer modular dependencies.

Additional Notes

Validation of the feature preview exposed deterministic classpath collisions outside SofaRPC. One representative failure was:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
  org.junit.platform.commons.util.CollectionUtils.forEachInReverseOrder(...)

MockServer's no-dependencies fat JAR contains an older JUnit Platform class which shadowed JUnit Platform 1.14.1 under enhanced ordering. OpenAI latest-dependency tests independently loaded incompatible OkHttp classes for the same reason. The preview was therefore removed, while the existing SofaRPC-local Netty alignment remains in place. Adopting enhanced graph ordering should be handled separately with a repository-wide fat-JAR collision audit before Gradle 10 makes it the default.

The Gradle 9.7.1 wrapper JAR is unchanged from 9.7.0 and still matches Gradle's published wrapper JAR checksum. The binary distribution checksum was updated to the official 9.7.1 value.

Validation:

• ./gradlew help
• ./gradlew spotlessCheck
• ./gradlew :components:http:http-api:test :components:http:http-api:forkedTest --rerun-tasks
• ./gradlew :dd-java-agent:instrumentation:openai-java:openai-java-3.0:latestDepTest -PtestJvm=17 --rerun-tasks (95 tests passed)
• ./gradlew :dd-java-agent:instrumentation:sofarpc:sofarpc-5.0:test :dd-java-agent:instrumentation:sofarpc:sofarpc-5.0:forkedTest :dd-java-agent:instrumentation:sofarpc:sofarpc-5.0:latestDepTest -PtestJvm=17 --rerun-tasks (7 tests passed, including the forked gRPC regression test)

Precedent: #12162

Contributor Checklist

• Format the title according to the contribution guidelines
• Assign the type: and (comp: or inst:) labels in addition to any other useful labels
• Avoid using close, fix, or any linking keywords when referencing an issue
  Use solves instead, and assign the PR milestone to the issue
• Update the CODEOWNERS file on source file addition, migration, or deletion (not applicable; no source files were added, migrated, or deleted)
• Update public documentation with any new configuration flags or behaviors (not applicable; this is a build configuration change)
• Once approved, use merge queue to merge the PR

Jira ticket: [PROJ-IDENT]

[datadog-datadog-us1-prod]

🎯 Code Coverage (details)
• Patch Coverage: 100.00%
• Overall Coverage: 58.80% (+0.00%)

_{This comment will be updated automatically if new data arrives.
🔗 Commit SHA: 1f8a303 | Docs | View more details | Give us feedback!}

[dd-octo-sts]

🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

Suite	Status
Startup	🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	14.80 s	14.64 s	[+0.4%; +1.8%] (maybe worse)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	13.56 s	13.66 s	[-1.5%; +0.1%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	17.47 s	17.32 s	[-0.1%; +1.8%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	17.45 s	17.57 s	[-1.4%; +0.1%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	17.51 s	17.44 s	[-0.7%; +1.6%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	17.51 s	16.73 s	[+0.3%; +9.0%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.76 s	16.66 s	[-0.5%; +1.7%] (no difference)

Commit: 1f8a3033 · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

---

Load and DaCapo benchmarks can be triggered manually in the GitLab pipeline. Results will appear in the Benchmarking Platform UI after completion.

[datadog-datadog-us1-prod]

More details

The wrapper URL and checksum match Gradle 9.7.1. The GitLab cache and smoke-test version pins also use 9.7.1.

Was this helpful? React 👍 or 👎

_{Open Bits AI session}

_{🤖 Datadog Autotest · Commit 1f8a303 · What is Autotest? · @DataDog review to ask questions · Any feedback? Reach out in #autotest}

[AlexeyKuznetsov-DD]

/code blockers

[gh-worker-devflow-routing-ef8351]

View all feedbacks in Devflow UI.

2026-08-27 20:30:35 UTC ℹ️ Start processing command /code blockers

---

2026-08-27 20:30:36 UTC ℹ️ Devflow:

Checking merge blockers for #12323...

---

2026-08-27 20:30:42 UTC ℹ️ Devflow: /code blockers

Detected 1 merge blocker(s) to address:

🟠 Pending

• Required check devflow/mergegate is running: 1 pending: 1 approval missing