diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index a471e88b..53615894 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ platformPlugins = JavaScript
 javaVersion = 17
 
 # Gradle Releases -> https://github.com/gradle/gradle/releases
-gradleVersion = 8.1.1
+gradleVersion = 8.2.1
 
 # Opt-out flag for bundling Kotlin standard library -> https://jb.gg/intellij-platform-kotlin-stdlib
 kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency = false
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index c1962a79..033e24c4 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 37aef8d3..9f4197d5 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index aeb74cbb..fcb6fca1 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -130,10 +130,13 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index ff7261fd..9f92f19b 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 rootProject.name = "intellij-hardhat"
-