fix(ci): unblock Java releases during native-image tracing - #1133

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Submitted dependency-graph-reports/dynamicdependency-graphauto-submission-submit-gradle.json: The snapshot was accepted, but it is not for the default branch. It will not update dependency results for the repository.

Using Java 21 (temurin) with Gradle (using wrapper)