diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ef648f0c8..0c6b133fe 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy:1.14.3'
+    implementation 'net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy:1.14.9'
     compileOnly 'org.spigotmc:spigot-api:1.20.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT'
     compileOnly 'org.spigotmc:spigot:1.20.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT'
     compileOnly 'io.netty:netty-all:4.0.23.Final'
     compileOnly 'net.kyori:adventure-text-serializer-gson:4.13.0'
     compileOnly 'com.googlecode.json-simple:json-simple:1.1.1'
 
-    testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.9.2'
-    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.9.2'
-    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:4.11.0'
-    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-inline:4.11.0'
+    testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.10.0'
+    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.10.0'
+    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher:1.10.0'
+    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:5.6.0'
     testImplementation 'io.netty:netty-common:4.1.97.Final'
     testImplementation 'io.netty:netty-transport:4.1.97.Final'
     testImplementation 'org.spigotmc:spigot:1.20.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT'
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 033e24c4c..7f93135c4 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 62f495dfe..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-8.2-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 fcb6fca14..1aa94a426 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/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker b/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
deleted file mode 100644
index ca6ee9cea..000000000
--- a/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-mock-maker-inline
\ No newline at end of file