diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index fbaf361670746..63c110aefc9a9 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ plugins {
   id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.46.0'
   id 'idea'
   id 'java-library'
-  id 'org.owasp.dependencycheck' version '8.1.2'
+  id 'org.owasp.dependencycheck' version '8.2.1'
   id 'org.nosphere.apache.rat' version "0.8.0"
   id "io.swagger.core.v3.swagger-gradle-plugin" version "2.2.8"
 
   id "com.github.spotbugs" version '5.0.13' apply false
   id 'org.gradle.test-retry' version '1.5.2' apply false
   id 'org.scoverage' version '7.0.1' apply false
-  id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '8.1.0' apply false
+  id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '8.1.1' apply false
   id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '6.14.0' apply false // 6.14.1 and newer require Java 11 at compile time, so we can't upgrade until AK 4.0
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 1114b5e3b72c6..0542eea470808 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ versions += [
   commonsCli: "1.4",
   commonsValidator: "1.7",
   dropwizardMetrics: "4.1.12.1",
-  gradle: "8.0.2",
+  gradle: "8.1.1",
   grgit: "4.1.1",
   httpclient: "4.5.13",
   easymock: "4.3",
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index c3b1b51990468..93eea3481ce68 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha=47a5bfed9ef814f90f8debcbbb315e8e7c654109acd224595ea39fca95c5d4da
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0.2-all.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=5625a0ae20fe000d9225d000b36909c7a0e0e8dda61c19b12da769add847c975
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 88bb70184f82b..047861d7df45e 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ done
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
 APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
-
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
 
@@ -118,7 +115,7 @@ esac
 # Loop in case we encounter an error.
 for attempt in 1 2 3; do
   if [ ! -e "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" ]; then
-    if ! curl -s -S --retry 3 -L -o "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gradle/gradle/v8.0.2/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"; then
+    if ! curl -s -S --retry 3 -L -o "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gradle/gradle/v8.1.1/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"; then
       rm -f "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"
       # Pause for a bit before looping in case the server throttled us.
       sleep 5
@@ -210,6 +207,10 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
 # Collect all arguments for the java command;
 #   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
 #     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in