Bumped Gradle to 8.7 for simple shared build services, and other comm…

…on state, so we can further speed up the build, move project information to the service, and try to create safe dependency contents so we can enable the configuration cache. There is significant build speed and saved recomputation efforts in that.

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.6-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME