diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/internal/InternalBwcGitPlugin.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/internal/InternalBwcGitPlugin.java
index 159270d28e3d6..c6e49dc44d6bd 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/internal/InternalBwcGitPlugin.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/internal/InternalBwcGitPlugin.java
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public InternalBwcGitPlugin(ProviderFactory providerFactory, ExecOperations exec
     public void apply(Project project) {
         this.project = project;
         this.gitExtension = project.getExtensions().create("bwcGitConfig", BwcGitExtension.class);
-        Provider<String> remote = providerFactory.systemProperty("bwc.remote").forUseAtConfigurationTime().orElse("opensearch-project");
+        Provider<String> remote = providerFactory.systemProperty("bwc.remote").orElse("opensearch-project");
 
         TaskContainer tasks = project.getTasks();
         TaskProvider<LoggedExec> createCloneTaskProvider = tasks.register("createClone", LoggedExec.class, createClone -> {
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
             String remoteRepo = remote.get();
             // for testing only we can override the base remote url
             String remoteRepoUrl = providerFactory.systemProperty("testRemoteRepo")
-                .forUseAtConfigurationTime()
                 .getOrElse("https://github.com/" + remoteRepo + "/OpenSearch.git");
             addRemote.setCommandLine(asList("git", "remote", "add", remoteRepo, remoteRepoUrl));
         });
@@ -113,7 +112,6 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
         TaskProvider<LoggedExec> fetchLatestTaskProvider = tasks.register("fetchLatest", LoggedExec.class, fetchLatest -> {
             Provider<Object> gitFetchLatest = project.getProviders()
                 .systemProperty("tests.bwc.git_fetch_latest")
-                .forUseAtConfigurationTime()
                 .orElse("true")
                 .map(fetchProp -> {
                     if ("true".equals(fetchProp)) {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index f01f0a84a786a..adfb521550eb9 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=bb09982fdf52718e4c7b25023d10df6d35a5fff969860bdf5a5bd27a3ab27a9e
+distributionSha256Sum=f2b9ed0faf8472cbe469255ae6c86eddb77076c75191741b4a462f33128dd419
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 0adc8e1a53214..1aa94a4269074 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ fi
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \