Upgrade to Gradle 7.6 and modernize build tooling #996
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Upgrades Gradle from 6.8.3 to 7.6, requiring Java 11+ for building the plugin while maintaining Java 8 runtime compatibility for plugin users.
BREAKING CHANGES for contributors:
Dependency upgrades:
Build script modernization:
Documentation updates:
Upgrade Gradle to 7.6 to allow for gradle-maven-publish-plugin to be updated to 0.27.0. This will be needed to support publishing to maven central, and helps modernize the code base
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