diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index dd3f9cb2c9d..01da8cebc4e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ plugins {
   id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.42.0'
   id 'idea'
   id 'java-library'
-  id 'org.owasp.dependencycheck' version '7.0.3'
-  id 'org.nosphere.apache.rat' version "0.7.0"
+  id 'org.owasp.dependencycheck' version '7.1.1'
+  id 'org.nosphere.apache.rat' version "0.7.1"
 
-  id "com.github.spotbugs" version '5.0.6' apply false
-  id 'org.gradle.test-retry' version '1.3.1' apply false
+  id "com.github.spotbugs" version '5.0.9' apply false
+  id 'org.gradle.test-retry' version '1.4.0' apply false
   id 'org.scoverage' version '7.0.0' apply false
   id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '7.1.2' apply false
   id "io.swagger.core.v3.swagger-gradle-plugin" version "2.2.0"
diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 2a0220c1faa..7025d12eb54 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ versions += [
   checkstyle: "8.36.2",
   commonsCli: "1.4",
   dropwizardMetrics: "4.1.12.1",
-  gradle: "7.5",
+  gradle: "7.5.1",
   grgit: "4.1.1",
   httpclient: "4.5.13",
   easymock: "4.3",
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ versions += [
   jfreechart: "1.0.0",
   jopt: "5.0.4",
   jose4j: "0.7.9",
-  junit: "5.8.2",
+  junit: "5.9.0",
   jqwik: "1.6.5",
   kafka_0100: "0.10.0.1",
   kafka_0101: "0.10.1.1",
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index ef80eb5051f..593bdcca0f3 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=97a52d145762adc241bad7fd18289bf7f6801e08ece6badf80402fe2b9f250b1
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-all.zip
+distributionSha=db9c8211ed63f61f60292c69e80d89196f9eb36665e369e7f00ac4cc841c2219
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 0c1e473f0ce..3c53cb3fbb8 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ esac
 # Loop in case we encounter an error.
 for attempt in 1 2 3; do
   if [ ! -e "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" ]; then
-    if ! curl -s -S --retry 3 -L -o "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gradle/gradle/v7.5.0/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"; then
+    if ! curl -s -S --retry 3 -L -o "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gradle/gradle/v7.5.1/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"; then
       rm -f "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar"
       # Pause for a bit before looping in case the server throttled us.
       sleep 5
@@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ set -- \
         org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
         "$@"
 
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
 # Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
 #
 # With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.