Support pre 1.24 patches (#1193) #409

Job	Run time
setup	4s
Gradle build on macos-15-intel	13m 16s
Gradle build on macos-latest	19m 42s
Gradle build on windows-latest	9m 32s
Gradle build on ubuntu-latest	6m 53s
Nightly prerelease (master)	21s
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