chore(deps): upgrade gRPC to 1.85.0 and align Netty to 4.2.19

build.gradle

@@ -6,14 +6,11 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 ext {
-    grpcVersion = "1.83.1"
+    grpcVersion = "1.85.0"
     // Netty 4.2 split io.netty.handler.codec.protobuf out of netty-codec into its
-    // own artifact. Both :framework and :p2p put the varint32 framing codecs on
-    // their channel pipelines and so must declare it explicitly. Netty itself
-    // arrives transitively through grpc-netty, so this version has to move with
-    // grpcVersion above — keeping it here makes that coupling visible instead of
-    // leaving two literals to drift apart.
-    nettyVersion = "4.2.15.Final"
+    // own artifact. :framework and :p2p declare that codec directly, while the
+    // Netty BOM in :protocol and :p2p aligns the modules brought in by grpc-netty.
+    nettyVersion = "4.2.19.Final"
     // Shared by :protocol and :p2p, which both generate from .proto files.
     protobufVersion = "3.25.8"
     // Shared by :framework, :plugins and :p2p.
@@ -24,6 +21,7 @@ allprojects {
     version = "1.0.0"
     apply plugin: "java-library"
     ext {
+        // the latest version supporting JDK1.8 is 5.x.x
         springVersion = "5.3.39"
         errorproneVersion = "2.42.0"
     }

framework/build.gradle

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'com.google.protobuf'
         exclude group: 'com.google.protobuf.nano'
     }
-    // http
+    // http. the latest version supporting JDK1.8 is 9.x.x
     implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server:9.4.58.v20250814'
     implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlet:9.4.58.v20250814'
     // end http