in my

~.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.12.1-all

I see an additional folder representing some hash

5akij8gnr65tdxupapyu22pqa

, which kind of hashing is that?

This is an MD5 hash of the URL: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/platforms/core-runtime/wrapper-shared/src/main/java/org/gradle/wrapper/PathAssembler.java

thanks