diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e3493f7c09..cf43b4eb22 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ This document is intended for Spotless developers.
 We adhere to the [keepachangelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format (starting after version `1.27.0`).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Changes
+* Bump the dev version of Gradle from `7.5.1` to `7.6` ([#1409](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1409))
+  * We also removed the no-longer-required dependency `org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-xml`
 
 ## [2.31.1] - 2023-01-02
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 249e5832f0..943f0cbfa7 100755
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 ae04661ee7..f398c33c4b 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index a69d9cb6c2..65dcd68d65 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # 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"'
@@ -143,12 +143,16 @@ fi
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index f127cfd49d..93e3f59f13 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
 if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
diff --git a/lib-extra/build.gradle b/lib-extra/build.gradle
index 38e7c37403..d94992f8d3 100644
--- a/lib-extra/build.gradle
+++ b/lib-extra/build.gradle
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ dependencies {
 	// needed by GitAttributesLineEndings
 	implementation "org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit:${VER_JGIT}"
 	implementation "com.googlecode.concurrent-trees:concurrent-trees:2.6.1"
-	// used for xml parsing in EclipseFormatter
-	implementation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-xml:3.0.10"
 
 	// testing
 	testImplementation project(':testlib')
diff --git a/plugin-gradle/build.gradle b/plugin-gradle/build.gradle
index f1b3320b50..ba60eb450f 100644
--- a/plugin-gradle/build.gradle
+++ b/plugin-gradle/build.gradle
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ apply from: rootProject.file('gradle/changelog.gradle')
 ext.artifactId = project.artifactIdGradle
 version = spotlessChangelog.versionNext
 apply plugin: 'java-library'
+apply plugin: 'com.gradle.plugin-publish'
+apply plugin: 'java-gradle-plugin'
 apply from: rootProject.file('gradle/java-setup.gradle')
 apply from: rootProject.file('gradle/spotless-freshmark.gradle')
 
-apply plugin: 'com.gradle.plugin-publish'
-apply plugin: 'java-gradle-plugin'
 
 dependencies {
 	if (version.endsWith('-SNAPSHOT') || (rootProject.spotlessChangelog.versionNext == rootProject.spotlessChangelog.versionLast)) {
diff --git a/plugin-gradle/src/test/java/com/diffplug/gradle/spotless/GradleIntegrationHarness.java b/plugin-gradle/src/test/java/com/diffplug/gradle/spotless/GradleIntegrationHarness.java
index 6cc35290db..9e2f490429 100644
--- a/plugin-gradle/src/test/java/com/diffplug/gradle/spotless/GradleIntegrationHarness.java
+++ b/plugin-gradle/src/test/java/com/diffplug/gradle/spotless/GradleIntegrationHarness.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2016-2022 DiffPlug
+ * Copyright 2016-2023 DiffPlug
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -53,9 +53,12 @@ public enum GradleVersionSupport {
 		GradleVersionSupport(String version) {
 			String minVersionForRunningJRE;
 			switch (Jvm.version()) {
+			case 21:
 			case 20:
-			case 19:
 				// TODO: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html
+			case 19:
+				minVersionForRunningJRE = "7.6";
+				break;
 			case 18:
 				minVersionForRunningJRE = "7.5";
 				break;