diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 2569ad58f..1ebafc134 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cpg = "7.1.2"
 koin = "3.5.0"
 koin-test = "3.5.0"
 detekt = "1.23.1"
-spotless = "6.21.0"
+spotless = "6.22.0"
 dokka = "1.9.0"
 
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ cpg-language-java = { module = "de.fraunhofer.aisec:cpg-language-java", version.
 
 kotlin-logging = { module = "io.github.oshai:kotlin-logging-jvm", version = "5.1.0" }
 log4j-impl = { module = "org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j2-impl", version = "2.20.0"}
-clikt = { module = "com.github.ajalt.clikt:clikt", version = "4.2.0"}
+clikt = { module = "com.github.ajalt.clikt:clikt", version = "4.2.1"}
 koin = { module = "io.insert-koin:koin-core", version.ref = "koin"}
 koin-test = { module = "io.insert-koin:koin-test", version.ref = "koin-test"}
 koin-junit5 = { module = "io.insert-koin:koin-test-junit5", version.ref = "koin-test"}
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index ac72c34e8..3fa8f862f 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-8.3-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 0adc8e1a5..1aa94a426 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ 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
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \