foojay-resolver-convention 0.5.0 incompatible with Gradle 9.0.0 (IBM_SEMERU removed)

[davaidev]

Hi! 👋

Firstly, thanks for your work on this project! 🙂

Today I used patch-package to patch @react-native/gradle-plugin@0.83.2 for the project I'm working on.

Problem

settings.gradle.kts pins foojay-resolver-convention to version 0.5.0, which references
JvmVendorSpec.IBM_SEMERU — a constant removed in Gradle 9.0.0. Expo SDK 55 ships with
Gradle 9.0.0, so any project using Expo SDK 55 + React Native 0.83 fails to build with:
Class org.gradle.jvm.toolchain.JvmVendorSpec does not have member field
'org.gradle.jvm.toolchain.JvmVendorSpec IBM_SEMERU'

Updating to foojay-resolver-convention 1.0.0 fixes the issue — this version drops the
IBM_SEMERU reference entirely.

Environment

• @react-native/gradle-plugin: 0.83.2
• Gradle: 9.0.0
• Expo SDK: 55

Here is the diff that solved my problem:

diff --git a/node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts b/node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts
index b3c46a3..14f1e9c 100644
--- a/node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pluginManagement {
}
}

-plugins { id("org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention").version("0.5.0") }
+plugins { id("org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention").version("1.0.0") }

include(
":react-native-gradle-plugin",

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[koyukan]

Confirming this affects all RN versions through 0.86.0 nightly (verified 2026-03-11).

I checked node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts across every published RN version — all ship foojay-resolver-convention 0.5.0. No version includes >= 1.0.0.

Reproduction

npx expo prebuild --platform android
cd android && ./gradlew assembleDebug

Crashes with:

Class org.gradle.jvm.toolchain.JvmVendorSpec does not have member field
'org.gradle.jvm.toolchain.JvmVendorSpec IBM_SEMERU'

Environment

• Expo SDK 55 (expo@55.0.5)
• React Native 0.83.2
• Gradle 9.0.0 (shipped by Expo SDK 55)
• @react-native/gradle-plugin 0.83.2
• macOS 15.4, Apple Silicon

Workaround

Install JDK 17 locally and disable Gradle's auto-download to bypass the foojay resolver entirely:

# ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
org.gradle.java.installations.auto-download=false
org.gradle.java.installations.paths=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home

This avoids the foojay code path completely. The patch-package approach from the OP also works but is fragile since npx expo prebuild regenerates the android/ directory.

Fix

Bump foojay-resolver-convention from 0.5.0 to 1.0.0 in @react-native/gradle-plugin/settings.gradle.kts. The fix is a one-line version change — foojay 1.0.0 drops the IBM_SEMERU reference.

[sschuberth]

See #54160. Unfortunately, it was closed unmerged (but for the wrong reasons, IMO).

[retu2libc]

Duplicate of #56287.

Fixed in #56210.

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