diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index a6e5b4c..3a08552 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 wrapper {
-    gradleVersion = '8.5'
+    gradleVersion = '8.12'
 }
 
 java {
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ version = (isRelease ? gitVersion() : gitVersion() + "-SNAPSHOT").replaceAll(".d
 repositories {
     mavenCentral()
     maven {
-        url "https://broadinstitute.jfrog.io/broadinstitute/libs-snapshot/" //for Broad snapshots
+        url = "https://broadinstitute.jfrog.io/broadinstitute/libs-snapshot/" //for Broad snapshots
     }
 
     mavenLocal()
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ artifacts {
  * Sign non-snapshot releases with our secret key.  This should never need to be invoked directly.
  */
 signing {
-    required { isRelease && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("publish") }
+    required = (isRelease && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("publish"))
     sign publishing.publications
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 1af9e09..cea7a79 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-8.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME