diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
deleted file mode 100644
index 16507218c4..0000000000
--- a/build.gradle
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-plugins {
-  alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.jvm) apply false
-  alias(libs.plugins.checksum)
-  alias(libs.plugins.shadow)
-  alias(libs.plugins.githubRelease)
-}
-
-def isKotlinDev = project.hasProperty('isKotlinDev')
-
-allprojects { p ->
-  if (isKotlinDev) {
-    String definedVersion = p.ext."VERSION_NAME".minus("-SNAPSHOT")
-    p.ext."VERSION_NAME" = "$definedVersion-kotlin-dev-SNAPSHOT".toString()
-  }
-
-  tasks.withType(Test).configureEach {
-    it.useJUnitPlatform()
-  }
-}
-
-configurations {
-  ktlint
-}
-
-dependencies {
-  ktlint projects.ktlint
-}
-
-task ktlint(type: JavaExec, group: LifecycleBasePlugin.VERIFICATION_GROUP) {
-  description = "Check Kotlin code style including experimental rules."
-  classpath = configurations.ktlint
-  mainClass.set("com.pinterest.ktlint.Main")
-  args '**/src/**/*.kt',
-    // Exclude sources which contain lint violations for the purpose of testing.
-    '!ktlint/src/test/resources/**',
-    '--baseline=ktlint/src/test/resources/test-baseline.xml',
-    // Experimental rules run by default run on the ktlint code base itself. Experimental rules should not be released if
-    // we are not pleased ourselves with the results on the ktlint code base.
-    '--experimental'
-    // Do not run with option "--verbose" or "-v" as the lint violations are difficult to spot between the amount of
-    // debug output lines.
-}
-
-// Deployment tasks
-String getGithubToken() {
-  if (project.hasProperty("servers.github.privKey")) {
-    return project.'servers.github.privKey'
-  } else {
-    logger.warn("No github token specified")
-    return ""
-  }
-}
-
-// Explicitly adding dependency on "shadowJarExecutable" as Gradle does not it set via "releaseAssets" property
-tasks.named("githubRelease") {
-  dependsOn { projects.ktlint.dependencyProject.tasks.named("shadowJarExecutable") }
-}
-
-githubRelease {
-  token getGithubToken()
-  owner "pinterest"
-  repo "ktlint"
-  tagName project.properties['VERSION_NAME']
-  releaseName project.properties['VERSION_NAME']
-  targetCommitish "master"
-  releaseAssets project.files({
-    // "shadowJarExecutableChecksum" task does not declare checksum files
-    // as output, only the whole output directory. As it uses the same directory
-    // as "shadowJarExecutable" - just pass all the files from that directory
-    projects.ktlint.dependencyProject.tasks.named("shadowJarExecutable").get()
-      .outputs
-      .files
-      .getFiles()
-      .first()
-      .parentFile
-      .listFiles()
-  })
-  overwrite true
-  dryRun false
-  body {
-    String changelog = project.file("CHANGELOG.md").text
-    changelog = changelog.substring(changelog.indexOf("## "))
-    // 1 in indexOf here to skip first "## [" occurence
-    changelog.substring(0, changelog.indexOf("## [", 1))
-  }
-}
-
-// Put "servers.github.privKey" in "$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties".
-def announceTask = tasks.register("announceRelease", Exec.class) { announceTask ->
-  group = "Help"
-  description = "Runs .announce script"
-  subprojects
-    .findAll { !it.name.contains("ktlint-ruleset-template") }
-    .each { subproject ->
-      announceTask.dependsOn subproject.tasks.named("publishMavenPublicationToMavenCentralRepository")
-    }
-
-  commandLine './.announce', '-y'
-  environment VERSION: "${project.'VERSION_NAME'}"
-  environment GITHUB_TOKEN: "${getGithubToken()}"
-}
-
-def homebrewTask = tasks.register("homebrewBumpFormula", Exec.class) { homebrewTask ->
-  group "Help"
-  description "Runs brew bump-forumula-pr"
-  commandLine './.homebrew'
-  environment VERSION: "${project.'VERSION_NAME'}"
-  dependsOn(tasks.named("githubRelease"))
-}
-
-tasks.register("publishNewRelease", DefaultTask.class) {
-  group = "Help"
-  description = "Triggers uploading new archives and publish announcements"
-  dependsOn(announceTask, homebrewTask, tasks.named("githubRelease"))
-}
-
-tasks.wrapper {
-  gradleVersion = libs.versions.gradle.get()
-  distributionSha256Sum = libs.versions.gradleSha256.get()
-}
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5e906f8767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+plugins {
+    alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.jvm) apply false
+    alias(libs.plugins.checksum)
+    alias(libs.plugins.shadow)
+    alias(libs.plugins.githubRelease)
+}
+
+val isKotlinDev: Boolean = project.hasProperty("isKotlinDev")
+
+allprojects {
+    if (isKotlinDev) {
+        val definedVersion = ext["VERSION_NAME"].toString().removeSuffix("-SNAPSHOT")
+        ext["VERSION_NAME"] = "$definedVersion-kotlin-dev-SNAPSHOT"
+    }
+
+    tasks.withType<Test>().configureEach {
+        useJUnitPlatform()
+    }
+}
+
+val ktlint: Configuration = configurations.create("ktlint")
+
+dependencies {
+    ktlint(projects.ktlint)
+}
+
+tasks.register<JavaExec>("ktlint") {
+    group = LifecycleBasePlugin.VERIFICATION_GROUP
+    description = "Check Kotlin code style including experimental rules."
+    classpath = ktlint
+    mainClass.set("com.pinterest.ktlint.Main")
+    args(
+        "**/src/**/*.kt",
+        "**.kts",
+        "!**/build/**",
+        // Exclude sources which contain lint violations for the purpose of testing.
+        "!ktlint/src/test/resources/**",
+        "--baseline=ktlint/src/test/resources/test-baseline.xml",
+        // Experimental rules run by default run on the ktlint code base itself. Experimental rules should not be released if
+        // we are not pleased ourselves with the results on the ktlint code base.
+        "--experimental",
+        // Do not run with option "--verbose" or "-v" as the lint violations are difficult to spot between the amount of
+        // debug output lines.
+    )
+}
+
+// Deployment tasks
+val githubToken: String = if (project.hasProperty("servers.github.privKey")) {
+    project.property("servers.github.privKey").toString()
+} else {
+    logger.warn("No github token specified")
+    ""
+}
+
+val shadowJarExecutable: TaskProvider<Task> by lazy {
+    projects.ktlint.dependencyProject.tasks.named("shadowJarExecutable")
+}
+
+// Explicitly adding dependency on "shadowJarExecutable" as Gradle does not it set via "releaseAssets" property
+tasks.githubRelease {
+    dependsOn(provider { shadowJarExecutable })
+}
+
+githubRelease {
+    token(githubToken)
+    owner("pinterest")
+    repo("ktlint")
+    tagName(project.property("VERSION_NAME").toString())
+    releaseName(project.property("VERSION_NAME").toString())
+    targetCommitish("master")
+    releaseAssets(
+        project.files(
+            provider {
+                // "shadowJarExecutableChecksum" task does not declare checksum files
+                // as output, only the whole output directory. As it uses the same directory
+                // as "shadowJarExecutable" - just pass all the files from that directory
+                shadowJarExecutable.get().outputs.files.files.first().parentFile.listFiles()
+            },
+        ),
+    )
+    overwrite(true)
+    dryRun(false)
+    body {
+        var changelog = project.file("CHANGELOG.md").readText()
+        changelog = changelog.substring(changelog.indexOf("## "))
+        // 1 in indexOf here to skip first "## [" occurence
+        changelog.substring(0, changelog.indexOf("## [", 1))
+    }
+}
+
+// Put "servers.github.privKey" in "$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties".
+val announceRelease by tasks.registering(Exec::class) {
+    group = "Help"
+    description = "Runs .announce script"
+    subprojects.filter { !it.name.contains("ktlint-ruleset-template") }.forEach { subproject ->
+        dependsOn(subproject.tasks.named("publishMavenPublicationToMavenCentralRepository"))
+    }
+
+    commandLine("./.announce", "-y")
+    environment("VERSION" to "${project.property("VERSION_NAME")}")
+    environment("GITHUB_TOKEN" to githubToken)
+}
+
+val homebrewBumpFormula by tasks.registering(Exec::class) {
+    group = "Help"
+    description = "Runs brew bump-forumula-pr"
+    commandLine("./.homebrew")
+    environment("VERSION" to "${project.property("VERSION_NAME")}")
+    dependsOn(tasks.named("githubRelease"))
+}
+
+tasks.register<DefaultTask>("publishNewRelease") {
+    group = "Help"
+    description = "Triggers uploading new archives and publish announcements"
+    dependsOn(announceRelease, homebrewBumpFormula, tasks.named("githubRelease"))
+}
+
+tasks.wrapper {
+    gradleVersion = libs.versions.gradle.get()
+    distributionSha256Sum = libs.versions.gradleSha256.get()
+}
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index eaa9cd3a0e..857309fcbc 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 VERSION_NAME=0.48.0-SNAPSHOT
+GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 
 POM_DESCRIPTION=An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter.
 
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ POM_URL=https://github.com/pinterest/ktlint
 POM_SCM_URL=https://github.com/pinterest/ktlint
 POM_SCM_CONNECTION=scm:git:git://github.com/pinterest/ktlint.git
 POM_SCM_DEV_CONNECTION=scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/pinterest/ktlint.git
+POM_PACKAGING=jar
 
 POM_LICENSE_NAME=MIT
 POM_LICENSE_URL=https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
diff --git a/ktlint-core/gradle.properties b/ktlint-core/gradle.properties
index 15863af7d4..f8b158c437 100644
--- a/ktlint-core/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-core/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-core
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-core
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-baseline/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-baseline/gradle.properties
index 3f601372ea..53b60b42da 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-baseline/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-baseline/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-baseline
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-baseline
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-checkstyle/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-checkstyle/gradle.properties
index e4517ed178..1e02c3f929 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-checkstyle/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-checkstyle/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-checkstyle
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-checkstyle
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-format/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-format/gradle.properties
index 7858a8bf91..81cb4b82a7 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-format/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-format/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-format
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-format
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-html/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-html/gradle.properties
index a5d9001bfa..0adcb01c89 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-html/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-html/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-html
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-html
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-json/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-json/gradle.properties
index 87231d378c..5b22447815 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-json/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-json/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-json
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-json
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-plain/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-plain/gradle.properties
index eefd1ecfb7..6430b9fd76 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-plain/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-plain/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-plain
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-plain
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-reporter-sarif/gradle.properties b/ktlint-reporter-sarif/gradle.properties
index 0c028bb1f5..eb1261a903 100644
--- a/ktlint-reporter-sarif/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-reporter-sarif/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-reporter-sarif
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-reporter-sarif
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-ruleset-experimental/gradle.properties b/ktlint-ruleset-experimental/gradle.properties
index 0a983b71b3..47018a88a6 100644
--- a/ktlint-ruleset-experimental/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-ruleset-experimental/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-ruleset-experimental
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-ruleset-experimental
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-ruleset-standard/gradle.properties b/ktlint-ruleset-standard/gradle.properties
index a56d010d27..a47f3dbe46 100644
--- a/ktlint-ruleset-standard/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-ruleset-standard/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-ruleset-standard
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-ruleset-standard
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-ruleset-template/build.gradle.kts b/ktlint-ruleset-template/build.gradle.kts
index db3967b9cf..732a31a71a 100644
--- a/ktlint-ruleset-template/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/ktlint-ruleset-template/build.gradle.kts
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ group = "com.github.username"
 val sourcesJar by tasks.registering(Jar::class) {
     dependsOn(tasks.classes)
     archiveClassifier.set("sources")
-    from(sourceSets.main.get().allSource)
+    from(sourceSets.main.map { it.allSource })
 }
 
 val javadocJar by tasks.registering(Jar::class) {
     dependsOn(tasks.javadoc)
     archiveClassifier.set("javadoc")
-    from(tasks.javadoc.get().destinationDir)
+    from(tasks.javadoc.map { it.destinationDir!! })
 }
 
 artifacts {
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ tasks.register<JavaExec>("ktlint") {
     mainClass.set("com.pinterest.ktlint.Main")
     // adding compiled classes to the classpath so that ktlint would validate project"s sources
     // using its own ruleset (in other words to dogfood)
-    classpath = ktlint + sourceSets.main.get().output
+    classpath(ktlint, sourceSets.main.map { it.output })
     args("--debug", "src/**/*.kt")
 }.let {
-    tasks.check.get().dependsOn(it)
+    tasks.check.configure {
+        dependsOn(it)
+    }
 }
 
 afterEvaluate {
diff --git a/ktlint-ruleset-test/gradle.properties b/ktlint-ruleset-test/gradle.properties
index 4e6bdad779..a6fbe6df6e 100644
--- a/ktlint-ruleset-test/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-ruleset-test/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-ruleset-test
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-ruleset-test
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-test-logging/gradle.properties b/ktlint-test-logging/gradle.properties
index 659751d642..92c9a070fd 100644
--- a/ktlint-test-logging/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-test-logging/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-test-logging
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-test-logging
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint-test/gradle.properties b/ktlint-test/gradle.properties
index 395cd12deb..e3ce5b3dfb 100644
--- a/ktlint-test/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint-test/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-GROUP=com.pinterest.ktlint
 POM_NAME=ktlint-test
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint-test
-POM_PACKAGING=jar
diff --git a/ktlint/build.gradle.kts b/ktlint/build.gradle.kts
index 6f536b694a..6d526f9c1e 100644
--- a/ktlint/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/ktlint/build.gradle.kts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ val shadowJarExecutable by tasks.registering(DefaultTask::class) {
             signing.sign(execFile)
         }
     }
-    finalizedBy(tasks["shadowJarExecutableChecksum"])
+    finalizedBy(tasks.named("shadowJarExecutableChecksum"))
 }
 
 tasks.register<Checksum>("shadowJarExecutableChecksum") {
diff --git a/ktlint/gradle.properties b/ktlint/gradle.properties
index 15ad7186a6..5aafec738f 100644
--- a/ktlint/gradle.properties
+++ b/ktlint/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 GROUP=com.pinterest
 POM_NAME=ktlint
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=ktlint
-POM_PACKAGING=jar