diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 64d8b2ef..919a3dbb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up JDK 17
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones should be disabled for a better relevancy of analysis
+    - name: Set up JDK 21
       uses: actions/setup-java@v3
       with:
-        java-version: '17'
-        distribution: 'adopt'
+        java-version: 21
+        distribution: adopt
         cache: gradle
     - name: build with Gradle
       run: ./gradlew --no-daemon build
@@ -37,11 +39,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up JDK 17
+    - name: Set up JDK 21
       uses: actions/setup-java@v3
       with:
-        java-version: '17'
-        distribution: 'adopt'
+        java-version: 21
+        distribution: adopt
         cache: gradle
     - name: Restore build cache
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v3
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/cache/save@v3
       with:
         path: ./build
-        key: ${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow_id }}-${{ runner.os }}-tests
+        key: ${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow_id }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
   analyze:
     name: Static code analysis
@@ -64,18 +66,18 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v3
       with:
-        fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones should be disabled for a better relevancy of analysis
-    - name: Set up JDK 17
+        fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones
+    - name: Set up JDK 21
       uses: actions/setup-java@v3
       with:
-        java-version: '17'
-        distribution: 'adopt'
+        java-version: 21
+        distribution: adopt
         cache: gradle
     - name: Restore tests cache
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v3
       with:
         path: ./build
-        key: ${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow_id }}-${{ runner.os }}-tests
+        key: ${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow_id }}-${{ runner.os }}
 
     - name: Cache SonarCloud packages
       uses: actions/cache@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
index a1f8ae4c..9e7a7e99 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up JDK
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: 17
+          java-version: 21
           distribution: adopt
           cache: gradle
       - name: Build documentation
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 69faceaf..4530d998 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Set up JDK 17
+      - name: Set up JDK 21
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          java-version: 17
+          java-version: 21
           distribution: adopt
           cache: gradle
       - name: Run gradle publish
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-      - name: Set up JDK 17
+      - name: Set up JDK 21
         uses: actions/setup-java@v2
         with:
-          java-version: '17'
-          distribution: 'adopt'
+          java-version: 21
+          distribution: adopt
           cache: gradle
 
       - name: Find and Replace
diff --git a/build-logic/code-info/build.gradle.kts b/build-logic/code-info/build.gradle.kts
index 7c2864e2..6e336a7c 100644
--- a/build-logic/code-info/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build-logic/code-info/build.gradle.kts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // regardless of the specific projects and languages
 plugins {
     `kotlin-dsl`    // To compile the plugin code
-    id("org.sonarqube") version "4.3.0.3225"
+    id("org.sonarqube") version "4.4.1.3373"
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/build-logic/generate-docs/build.gradle.kts b/build-logic/generate-docs/build.gradle.kts
index 159e548d..24babf71 100644
--- a/build-logic/generate-docs/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build-logic/generate-docs/build.gradle.kts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.8.20")
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.9.0")
-    dokkaPlugin("org.jetbrains.dokka:kotlin-as-java-plugin:1.8.20")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.9.10")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.9.21")
+    dokkaPlugin("org.jetbrains.dokka:kotlin-as-java-plugin:1.9.10")
 }
diff --git a/build-logic/generate-docs/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.generate-docs.gradle.kts b/build-logic/generate-docs/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.generate-docs.gradle.kts
index 339a5355..9d008012 100644
--- a/build-logic/generate-docs/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.generate-docs.gradle.kts
+++ b/build-logic/generate-docs/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.generate-docs.gradle.kts
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.8.20")
-    dokkaPlugin("org.jetbrains.dokka:kotlin-as-java-plugin:1.8.20")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.9.10")
+    dokkaPlugin("org.jetbrains.dokka:kotlin-as-java-plugin:1.9.10")
 }
 
 tasks.register("docs") {
diff --git a/build-logic/java-library/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.java-library.gradle.kts b/build-logic/java-library/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.java-library.gradle.kts
index 25d57def..03908f51 100644
--- a/build-logic/java-library/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.java-library.gradle.kts
+++ b/build-logic/java-library/src/main/kotlin/io.github.moonlightsuite.java-library.gradle.kts
@@ -10,24 +10,15 @@ description = "MoonLight: a light-weight framework for runtime monitoring"
 
 // == General Java settings ==
 java {
-    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
-    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
+    toolchain {
+        languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(21))
+    }
+    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_21
+    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_21
 //    withJavadocJar()
 //    withSourcesJar()
 }
 
-tasks.withType<JavaCompile> {
-    // Needed by pattern matching on switches:
-    options.compilerArgs.add("--enable-preview")
-}
-
-tasks.withType<Javadoc> {
-    // Needed by pattern matching on switches:
-    val javadocOptions = options as CoreJavadocOptions
-    javadocOptions.addStringOption("source", "17")
-    javadocOptions.addBooleanOption("-enable-preview", true)
-}
-
 tasks {
     // to allow UTF-8 characters in comments
     compileJava { options.encoding = "UTF-8" }
@@ -41,8 +32,6 @@ dependencies {
 
 tasks.test {
     useJUnitPlatform()
-    // Needed by pattern matching on switches:
-    jvmArgs("--enable-preview")
 }
 
 
@@ -52,9 +41,9 @@ tasks.jacocoTestReport.configure {
 }
 
 tasks.register<Copy>("copyDependencies") {
-    from(configurations.runtimeClasspath).into("$buildDir/jmods")
+    from(configurations.runtimeClasspath).into(layout.buildDirectory.dir("jmods"))
 }
 
 tasks.register<Copy>("copyJar") {
-    from(tasks.jar).into("$buildDir/jmods")
+    from(tasks.jar).into(layout.buildDirectory.dir("jmods"))
 }
diff --git a/build-logic/settings.gradle.kts b/build-logic/settings.gradle.kts
index 17c0bb09..d5aa219c 100644
--- a/build-logic/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/build-logic/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ pluginManagement {
     }
 
     plugins {
-        kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.0" apply false         // for compiling the docs
-        id("org.jetbrains.dokka") version "1.8.20" apply false
+        kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.21" apply false         // for compiling the docs
+        id("org.jetbrains.dokka") version "1.9.10" apply false
     }
 }
 
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
 // Required to remove annoying warning in subprojects
 plugins {
     `kotlin-dsl` apply false
+
+    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.20-RC2" apply false // TODO: remove when 1.9.20 is released
 }
 
 // We aggregate all the build logic in a single project
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index f3ca2db8..000433d0 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ fun Copy.copyModulesUpwards() {
     duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE
     subprojects.filter { it.name in listOf("engine", "script") }.forEach { project ->
         dependsOn(":${project.name}:$name")
-        from("${project.buildDir}/jmods")
-        into("$buildDir/jmods")
+        from(project.layout.buildDirectory.dir("jmods"))
+        into(layout.buildDirectory.dir("jmods"))
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/console/build.gradle.kts b/console/build.gradle.kts
index c6705a93..9cc90baf 100644
--- a/console/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/console/build.gradle.kts
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ application {
 
 fun copyAuxiliaryFiles(source: String, destination: String) {
     copy {
-        from("$buildDir/resources/main/$source")
-        into(rootProject.file("$rootDir/release/$destination"))
+        from(layout.buildDirectory.file("resources/main/$source"))
+        into(rootProject.layout.buildDirectory.file("$rootDir/release/$destination"))
     }
 }
 
-fun copyFromTo(source: String, destination: String) =
+fun copyFromTo(source: Provider<Directory>, destination: Provider<Directory>) =
         copy {
             println("Copying: ${file(source).listFiles()?.map{ it.name }} to $destination")
             from(file(source))
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ tasks.register("distribution") {
     dependsOn("installDist")
 
     doLast {
-        copyFromTo("$buildDir/libs/", "$rootDir/distribution_files/matlab/moonlight/jar/")
-        copyFromTo("$buildDir/libs/", "$rootDir/distribution_files/console/")
+        val libs = layout.buildDirectory.dir("libs")
+        val moonlightJar = rootProject.layout.buildDirectory.dir("distribution_files/matlab/moonlight/jar")
+        val console = rootProject.layout.buildDirectory.dir("distribution_files/console")
+        copyFromTo(libs, moonlightJar)
+        copyFromTo(libs, console)
     }
 }
 
@@ -44,8 +47,9 @@ tasks.register("release") {
     dependsOn("distribution")
 
     doLast {
-        val source = rootProject.file("$rootDir/distribution_files/").path
-        copyFromTo(source, "$rootDir/distribution/")
+        val distributionFiles = rootProject.layout.buildDirectory.dir("distribution_files")
+        val distribution = rootProject.layout.buildDirectory.dir("distribution_files")
+        copyFromTo(distributionFiles, distribution)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 033e24c4..7f93135c 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 9f4197d5..1af9e093 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-8.2.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index fcb6fca1..1aa94a42 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -144,7 +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
@@ -152,7 +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
@@ -201,11 +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" \
diff --git a/matlab/build.gradle.kts b/matlab/build.gradle.kts
index b2937aba..4219179d 100644
--- a/matlab/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/matlab/build.gradle.kts
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@ java {
     withSourcesJar()
 }
 
-tasks.withType<JavaCompile> {
-    // Needed by pattern matching on switches:
-    options.compilerArgs.remove("--enable-preview")
-}
-
 dependencies {
     //implementation fileTree(dir: "lib", include: "engine.jar")
     //implementation fileTree(dir: "lib", include: "engine2019.jar")
diff --git a/python/build.gradle.kts b/python/build.gradle.kts
index e74cfa26..9c43ca37 100644
--- a/python/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/python/build.gradle.kts
@@ -11,16 +11,18 @@ dependencies {
 
 fun updateExecutableJar() {
     copy {
-        println("From: $buildDir/libs/${project.name}-all.jar")
-        println("To: $projectDir/src/moonlight/jar")
-        from("$buildDir/libs/${project.name}-all.jar")
-        into("$projectDir/src/moonlight/jar")
+        val buildJar = layout.buildDirectory.file("libs/${project.name}-all.jar")
+        val projectJarDir = layout.projectDirectory.dir("src/moonlight/jar")
+        println("From: $buildJar")
+        println("To: $projectJarDir")
+        from(buildJar)
+        into(projectJarDir)
     }
 }
 
 tasks.create<Delete>("clearArtifacts") {
-    project.delete("$projectDir/src/moonlight/jar")
-    project.delete("$buildDir/libs/")
+    project.delete(layout.projectDirectory.dir("src/moonlight/jar"))
+    project.delete(layout.buildDirectory.dir("libs"))
     project.delete("dist")
 }