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Upgrade Gradle to 9.1.0#4498
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@xiang17 xiang17 commented Oct 14, 2025 •
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Followed upgrade guide Upgrading within Gradle 9.x.y, which requires following the older migration guide first: Upgrading to Gradle 9.0.0.

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xiang17 commented Oct 14, 2025

Many test failed. Example:

 ConsumptionPlanEnabledTest$Java8Test STANDARD_OUT
    Test failure detected.
    Container logs:
    Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Dapplicationinsights.testing.batch-schedule-delay-millis=500 -javaagent:/applicationinsights-agent.jar -Dapplicationinsights.testing.statsbeat.ikey=00000000-0000-0000-0000-0FEEDDADBEEG -Dapplicationinsights.testing.statsbeat.endpoint=http://host.testcontainers.internal:6060/
    2025-10-14 00:18:49.255Z INFO  c.m.applicationinsights.agent - Application Insights Java Agent 3.7.5-SNAPSHOT started successfully (PID 1, JVM running for 6.513 s)
    2025-10-14 00:18:49.265Z INFO  c.m.applicationinsights.agent - Java version: 1.8.0_462, vendor: Temurin, home: /opt/java/openjdk/jre
    Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/springframework/boot/loader/launch/JarLauncher has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 61.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
    	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:756)

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Spring Boot 3.x is compiled for (and requires) Java 17+. Its boot loader classes (including org.springframework.boot.loader.launch.JarLauncher) are built with class file version 61.0 (Java 17).

Java 8 can only load up to class file version 52.0, so the JVM aborts before the app starts: UnsupportedClassVersionError.

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xiang17 commented Oct 14, 2025

The problem is Spring Boot 3.x dropped support for Java 8. However, 2.7.18 (latest in 2.x.y) doesn't support Gradle 9.0.

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