diff --git a/.github/workflows/gradle.yml b/.github/workflows/gradle.yml
index 0c5c8226a9..80949d9d35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gradle.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gradle.yml
@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - name: Set up JDK 11
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+    - name: Set up JDK 17
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v4
       with:
         distribution: 'temurin'
-        java-version: '11'
+        java-version: '17'
         cache: 'gradle'
     - name: Build with Gradle
       run: chmod +x gradlew && ./gradlew build
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 212460cc37..1cac05d548 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,46 +1,56 @@
-apply plugin: 'java'
-apply plugin: 'checkstyle'
+plugins {
+    id 'java'
+    id 'checkstyle'
+}
 
 group = 'com.fishercoder'
 version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
 
-javadoc.options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
-compileJava.options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
-
-checkstyle {
-    //include ( '**/*.java')
-    configFile = file("${rootDir}/fishercoder_checkstyle.xml")
+java {
+    toolchain {
+        languageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(17)
+    }
 }
 
-sourceSets {
-    main {
-        java {
-            srcDir 'src/fishercoder'
-        }
-    }
+tasks.javadoc {
+    options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
 }
 
-description = """"""
+tasks.compileJava {
+    options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
+}
 
 repositories {
     mavenCentral()
-    maven { url "http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" }
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.0'
-    compile group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-collections4', version: '4.0'
+    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.10.1'
+    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-collections4:4.0'
 
-    testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.8.1'
-    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.8.1'
+    testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.10.3'
+    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.10.3'
 
-    testCompile("org.assertj:assertj-core:3.11.1")
-    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
-    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
-    testCompileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
-    testAnnotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
+    testImplementation 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.11.1'
+    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.32'
+    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.32'
+    testCompileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.32'
+    testAnnotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.32'
 }
 
-test {
-    useJUnitPlatform()
+testing {
+    suites {
+        test {
+            useJUnitJupiter()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+tasks.withType(Test).configureEach {
+    maxParallelForks = Runtime.runtime.availableProcessors()
+}
+
+checkstyle {
+    toolVersion = '6.17'
+    config = rootProject.resources.text.fromFile('fishercoder_checkstyle.xml')
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 758de960ec..e6441136f3 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 2d80b69a76..09523c0e54 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.8.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.9-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists