diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.base.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.base.gradle.kts
index a863b4c..a291887 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.base.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.base.gradle.kts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    idea
+    id("idea")
 }
 
 val projectgroup: String = providers.gradleProperty("projectgroup").get()
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.checkstyle.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.checkstyle.gradle.kts
index f45bb90..ea7a8ce 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.checkstyle.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.checkstyle.gradle.kts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 plugins {
-    checkstyle
+    id("checkstyle")
     id("twomartens.java-base")
 }
 
 checkstyle {
-    toolVersion = "10.0"
+    toolVersion = "10.12.4"
     isIgnoreFailures = false
     maxWarnings = 0
 
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java-base.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java-base.gradle.kts
index c665e7d..84241a0 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java-base.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java-base.gradle.kts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 plugins {
-    java
-    `java-library`
+    id("java")
+    id("java-library")
     id("twomartens.base")
-    application
+    id("application")
 }
 
 val projectSourceCompatibility: String = rootProject.properties["projectSourceCompatibility"].toString()
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java.gradle.kts
index 21e4f8c..fba772a 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/twomartens.java.gradle.kts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import org.gradle.accessors.dm.LibrariesForLibs
 
 plugins {
-    jacoco
+    id("jacoco")
     id("io.freefair.lombok")
     id("twomartens.java-base")
     id("twomartens.checkstyle")
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 36a6149..cd6601b 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ plugin-gradle-versions = "0.46.0"
 plugin-version-catalog = "0.8.0"
 plugin-kotlin-gradle = "1.9.21"
 plugin-jib = "3.4.5"
+plugin-checkstyle = "10.12.4"
 
 [libraries]
 spring-boot = { module = "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies", version.ref = "spring-boot" }
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ plugin-version-catalog = { module = "nl.littlerobots.vcu:plugin", version.ref =
 plugin-kotlin-gradle = { module = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin", version.ref = "plugin-kotlin-gradle" }
 plugin-kotlin-spring = { module = "org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.spring:org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.spring.gradle.plugin", version.ref = "plugin-kotlin-gradle" }
 plugin-jib = { module = "com.google.cloud.tools:jib-gradle-plugin", version.ref = "plugin-jib" }
+plugin-chekstyle = { module = "com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle", version.ref = "plugin-checkstyle" }
 
 [bundles]
 logging = [
@@ -143,3 +145,4 @@ test = [
 
 [plugins]
 kotlin-lombok = { id = "org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.lombok", version.ref = "kotlin-lombok" }
+checkstyle = { id = "com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle", version.ref = "plugin-checkstyle" }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 2e11132..ca025c8 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-9.1.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME