diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
index 8b84ecc05..c44cf1a39 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: gradle:8.12-jdk17-focal
+
+    needs: [checkstyle]
     steps:
       -
         name: Checkout code
@@ -44,6 +46,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: maven:3.8.5-openjdk-17
+
+    needs: [test]
     steps:
       -
         name: Checkout code
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     
-    needs: [checkstyle, test, build]
+    needs: [build]
     steps:
         - 
           name: Checkout the code from main branch
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index df97d72b8..e18bc253b 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-8.10.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index f5feea6d6..f3b75f3b0 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ done
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
 # Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
-APP_HOME=$( cd -P "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && printf '%s
-' "$PWD" ) || exit
+APP_HOME=$( cd -P "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && printf '%s\n' "$PWD" ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum