diff --git a/examples/basic-examples/build.gradle b/examples/basic-examples/build.gradle
index 0c75e583..92ad7662 100644
--- a/examples/basic-examples/build.gradle
+++ b/examples/basic-examples/build.gradle
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 plugins {
     id 'application'
     id 'com.diffplug.spotless' version '8.0.0'
-    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm' version '2.3.21'
+    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm' version '2.4.0'
 }
 
 application {
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 ext {
-    jacksonVersion = "2.21.0"
+    jacksonVersion = "2.22.0"
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/examples/basic-examples/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/examples/basic-examples/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 01471d62..d907757b 100644
--- a/examples/basic-examples/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/examples/basic-examples/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-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/examples/basic-examples/gradlew b/examples/basic-examples/gradlew
index b9bb139f..249efbb0 100755
--- a/examples/basic-examples/gradlew
+++ b/examples/basic-examples/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: