diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 9e6db41..9abba43 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ sourceSets {
 dependencies {
   api gradleApi()
   api localGroovy()
-  implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:5.1.0'
+  implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:5.3.0'
   implementation 'org.kohsuke:github-api:1.330'
   implementation 'org.apache.tika:tika-core:3.2.3'
 
   //########################################################
   //overriding the provided versions of these libraries as 
   //they are not compatible with the dependency check plugin
-  implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.18.0'
+  implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.19.0'
   implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.14.0'
   //########################################################
   
diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle b/buildSrc/build.gradle
index b1238ab..aec2b8c 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ repositories {
 
 dependencies {
 
-  implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:5.1.0'
+  implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:5.3.0'
   implementation 'org.kohsuke:github-api:1.330'
   implementation 'org.apache.tika:tika-core:3.2.3'
 
   //########################################################
   //overriding the provided versions of these libraries as
   // they are not compatible with the dependency check plugin
-  implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.18.0'
+  implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.19.0'
   implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.14.0'
   //########################################################
   
 
-  testImplementation 'com.netflix.nebula:nebula-test:11.2.0'
+  testImplementation 'com.netflix.nebula:nebula-test:11.7.1'
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 2e11132..bad7c24 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.1.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.2.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index ef07e01..adff685 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ case "$( uname )" in                #(
   NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
 esac
 
-CLASSPATH="\\\"\\\""
 
 
 # Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
@@ -172,7 +171,6 @@ fi
 # For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
 if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
-    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
 
     JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
 
@@ -212,7 +210,6 @@ DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
-        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
         -jar "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" \
         "$@"
 
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 5eed7ee..e509b2d 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -70,11 +70,10 @@ goto fail
 :execute
 @rem Setup the command line
 
-set CLASSPATH=
 
 
 @rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %*
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %*
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 73463e8..7943ae3 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ include 'services:webservice'
 
 plugins {
   id 'org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention' version '1.0.0'
-  id "com.gradle.develocity" version "4.2"
+  id "com.gradle.develocity" version "4.2.2"
 }
 
 rootProject.name = 'gradle-github-release-plugin'