React Native 0.71-RC0 Android outage

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On November 4th 2022, we published the version 0.71.0-rc0 of React Native, the first release candidate for 0.71, on several public repositories.

A major change made in this release candidate helped to improve build times by publishing artifacts to Maven Central, instead of building them from source. More details on how this was done are available in RFC#508 and related discussions.

Unfortunately, because of the way we scaffolded new projects from the template, this caused build failures for any Android user on older versions because they would start downloading new artifacts for 0.71.0-rc0 instead of the version they were using in their project (like 0.68.0).