diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
index 448ba8a96ef02..570ab4a9f70e1 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/info/GlobalBuildInfoPlugin.java
@@ -199,7 +199,28 @@ private JavaVersion determineJavaVersion(String description, File javaHome, Java
     }
 
     private JvmInstallationMetadata getJavaInstallation(File javaHome) {
-        final InstallationLocation location = new InstallationLocation(javaHome, "Java home");
+        InstallationLocation location = null;
+
+        try {
+            try {
+                // The InstallationLocation(File, String) is used by Gradle pre-8.8
+                location = (InstallationLocation) MethodHandles.publicLookup()
+                    .findConstructor(InstallationLocation.class, MethodType.methodType(void.class, File.class, String.class))
+                    .invokeExact(javaHome, "Java home");
+            } catch (Throwable ex) {
+                // The InstallationLocation::userDefined is used by Gradle post-8.7
+                location = (InstallationLocation) MethodHandles.publicLookup()
+                    .findStatic(
+                        InstallationLocation.class,
+                        "userDefined",
+                        MethodType.methodType(InstallationLocation.class, File.class, String.class)
+                    )
+                    .invokeExact(javaHome, "Java home");
+
+            }
+        } catch (Throwable ex) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unable to find suitable InstallationLocation constructor / factory method", ex);
+        }
 
         try {
             try {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 9b0d73222260e..cdfed2f7be009 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.8-rc-1-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=194717442575a6f96e1c1befa2c30e9a4fc90f701d7aee33eb879b79e7ff05c0
+distributionSha256Sum=f67448fd344faf5a366b3687170bf844e59fa7bd15cc0d69471455df4104c2b9