diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index df6a6ad7..eb84db68 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-9.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index b9bb139f..249efbb0 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#   gradlew start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
 #
 #   Important for running:
 #
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
 #       command line, like:
 #
-#           ksh Gradle
+#           ksh gradlew
 #
 #       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
 #       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index aa5f10b0..8508ef68 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem  gradlew startup script for Windows
 @rem
 @rem ##########################################################################
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 
 
-@rem Execute Gradle
+@rem Execute gradlew
 @rem endlocal doesn't take effect until after the line is parsed and variables are expanded
 @rem which allows us to clear the local environment before executing the java command
 endlocal & "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %* & call :exitWithErrorLevel
diff --git a/services/auth-api/build.gradle.kts b/services/auth-api/build.gradle.kts
index 1e64eb0a..d4f728ea 100644
--- a/services/auth-api/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/services/auth-api/build.gradle.kts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("org.flywaydb:flyway-database-postgresql")
     implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jooq")
     implementation("org.jooq:jooq")
-    implementation("tools.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin:3.1.4")
+    implementation("tools.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin:3.2.0")
     runtimeOnly("org.postgresql:postgresql")
     // Tracing runtime jars. With these on the classpath Spring Boot
     // activates micrometer-tracing + the OTLP exporter and starts shipping
diff --git a/services/knowledge-api/build.gradle.kts b/services/knowledge-api/build.gradle.kts
index 50b75bc2..6dad6270 100644
--- a/services/knowledge-api/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/services/knowledge-api/build.gradle.kts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("org.flywaydb:flyway-database-postgresql")
     implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jooq")
     implementation("org.jooq:jooq")
-    implementation("tools.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin:3.1.4")
+    implementation("tools.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin:3.2.0")
     // Springdoc publishes `/api/v1/api-docs` (OpenAPI 3 JSON) over the
     // committed REST controllers under `web/`. The committed
     // `services/knowledge-api/openapi.json` is the contract knowledge-ui