* Make ForbiddenApisPrecommitPlugin plugin Gradle 8.0 compatible
* Fix deprecations on ignoring empty folders for task inputs
* Update Gradle wrapper to 7.4 GA
Setting up automatic benchmark builds.
This PR allows testing impact on build changes on the build performance by comparing the PR source against master and run different scenarios to verify build performance by using the gradle profiler (see https://github.com/gradle/gradle-profiler)
they can be triggered by adding the `build-benchmark` GitHub label