Upgrade 0.72.6 to 0.76

[DahaQalbi]

Environment

(node:42350) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use node --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created)
warn Package rn-fetch-blob contains invalid configuration: "dependency.hooks" is not allowed. Please verify it's properly linked using "npx react-native config" command and contact the package maintainers about this.
info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
OS: macOS 15.5
CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 104.68 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell:
version: "5.9"
path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node:
version: 22.13.0
path: ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.13.0/bin/node
Yarn:
version: 1.22.22
path: /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm:
version: 10.9.2
path: ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.13.0/bin/npm
Watchman:
version: 2025.05.26.00
path: /usr/local/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods:
version: 1.16.2
path: /Users/mac/.rbenv/shims/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms:
- DriverKit 24.5
- iOS 18.5
- macOS 15.5
- tvOS 18.5
- visionOS 2.5
- watchOS 11.5
Android SDK:
API Levels:
- "28"
- "30"
- "31"
- "33"
- "34"
- "35"
- "36"
Build Tools:
- 30.0.3
- 33.0.0
- 33.0.1
- 33.0.2
- 33.0.3
- 34.0.0
- 35.0.0
System Images:
- android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom
- android-35 | Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
- android-36 | Google APIs Intel x86_64 Atom
Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2024.1 AI-241.15989.150.2411.11948838
Xcode:
version: 16.4/16F6
path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java:
version: 17.0.9
path: /Users/mac/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/semeru-17.0.9/Contents/Home/bin/javac
Ruby:
version: 2.7.0
path: /Users/mac/.rbenv/shims/ruby
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
react: Not Found
react-native: Not Found
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"react-native": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: false

info React Native v0.79.3 is now available (your project is running on v0.76.9).
info Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.79.3
info Diff: https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.76.9&to=0.79.3
info For more info, check out "https://reactnative.dev/docs/upgrading?os=macos".

Things I’ve done to figure out my issue

• I used upgrade-helper to do my upgrade.
  I try but faild so many times so can I get help from your side

Upgrading version

0.76

Description

So for now my project is developed with react native 0.72.6. So I tried to deploy this project on the Google Play Store but failed because the target SDK version is too low.
I need to upgrade the React Native version to the latest, or at least to 0.76.x, to be able to deploy.
Got this error while run .gradle clean command

Reproducible demo

Error: Execution failed for task ':gradle-plugin:shared:compileKotlin'.

A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction

this is android/build.gradle file:

buildscript {
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "35.0.0"
minSdkVersion = 24
compileSdkVersion = 35
targetSdkVersion = 34

     ndkVersion = "26.1.10909125"

kotlinVersion = "1.9.24"
}
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {

classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.1")
classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlinVersion")
classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
classpath("com.google.gms:google-services:4.4.1")
}

}

allprojects {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native-video-cache-control/android/libs"
}
}
}

setting.gradle:
rootProject.name = 'ConsumerMobile'
apply from: file("/Users/mac/Documents/ReactNative/long-story-short/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle")
include ':app'
includeBuild('/Users/mac/Documents/ReactNative/long-story-short/node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin')

include ':react-native-fs'
project(':react-native-fs').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '/Users/mac/Documents/ReactNative/long-story-short/node_modules/react-native-fs/android')

gradle-wrapper.properties:
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10-all.zip
networkTimeout=10000
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
validateDistributionUrl=true
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists