Bump Gradle to 9.4 (Kotlin to 2.3, AGP to 9.1)

Follow-up to facebook#55453

- bump Gradle wrapper from 9.3.1 to 9.4.0 (root, RNGP, helloworld)
- bump RNGP: AGP from 8.12.0 to 9.1.0, Kotlin from 2.1.20 to 2.3.0
- bump RNGP Kotlin compiler API ver from KOTLIN_1_8 to KOTLIN_2_3

Then follow-up react-native-community/template gradlew and kotlinVersion updates

Ref: leotm/react-native-template-new-architecture#1933

Author: leotm

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.4.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

packages/gradle-plugin/gradle/libs.versions.toml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 [versions]
-agp = "8.12.0"
+agp = "9.1.0"
 gson = "2.8.9"
 guava = "31.0.1-jre"
 javapoet = "1.13.0"
 junit = "4.13.2"
-kotlin = "2.1.20"
+kotlin = "2.3.0"
 assertj = "3.25.1"
 ktfmt = "0.22.0"
 

packages/gradle-plugin/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.4.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

packages/gradle-plugin/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ kotlin { jvmToolchain(17) }
 
 tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>().configureEach {
   compilerOptions {
-    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_1_8)
+    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_2_3)
     // See comment above on JDK 11 support
     jvmTarget.set(JvmTarget.JVM_11)
     allWarningsAsErrors.set(

packages/gradle-plugin/settings-plugin/build.gradle.kts

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ kotlin { jvmToolchain(17) }
 
 tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>().configureEach {
   compilerOptions {
-    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_1_8)
+    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_2_3)
     // See comment above on JDK 11 support
     jvmTarget.set(JvmTarget.JVM_11)
     allWarningsAsErrors.set(

packages/gradle-plugin/shared-testutil/build.gradle.kts

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ kotlin { jvmToolchain(17) }
 
 tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>().configureEach {
   compilerOptions {
-    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_1_8)
+    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_2_3)
     // See comment above on JDK 11 support
     jvmTarget.set(JvmTarget.JVM_11)
     allWarningsAsErrors.set(

packages/gradle-plugin/shared/build.gradle.kts

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ kotlin { jvmToolchain(17) }
 
 tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>().configureEach {
   compilerOptions {
-    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_1_8)
+    apiVersion.set(KotlinVersion.KOTLIN_2_3)
     // See comment above on JDK 11 support
     jvmTarget.set(JvmTarget.JVM_11)
     allWarningsAsErrors.set(

private/helloworld/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.4.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME