diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1937d97cc70..062486e9026 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ variables:
   BUILD_JOB_NAME: "build"
   DEPENDENCY_CACHE_POLICY: pull
   BUILD_CACHE_POLICY: pull
-  GRADLE_VERSION: "9.6.0" # must match gradle-wrapper.properties
+  GRADLE_VERSION: "9.6.1" # must match gradle-wrapper.properties
   MASS_READ_URL: "https://mass-read.us1.ddbuild.io"
   MAVEN_REPOSITORY_PROXY: "https://depot-read-api-java.us1.ddbuild.io/magicmirror/magicmirror/@current/"
   GRADLE_PLUGIN_PROXY: "https://depot-read-api-java.us1.ddbuild.io/magicmirror/magicmirror/@current/"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 65d8749eabe..dbe66e1d665 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=bbaeb2fef8710818cf0e261201dab964c572f92b942812df0c3620d62a529a01
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.0-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=9c0f7faeeb306cb14e4279a3e084ca6b596894089a0638e68a07c945a32c9e14
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index b9bb139f790..249efbb032c 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/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:
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index aa5f10b069f..8508ef684d4 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem  gradlew startup script for Windows
 @rem
 @rem ##########################################################################
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 
 
-@rem Execute Gradle
+@rem Execute gradlew
 @rem endlocal doesn't take effect until after the line is parsed and variables are expanded
 @rem which allows us to clear the local environment before executing the java command
 endlocal & "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %* & call :exitWithErrorLevel