diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 571b4187..6cd1aa59 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@ buildscript {
 	}
 }
 plugins {
+    id 'maven-publish'
 	// https://github.com/researchgate/gradle-release
-	id 'net.researchgate.release' version '2.8.1'
+	id 'net.researchgate.release' version '3.0.2'
     id 'io.codearte.nexus-staging' version '0.30.0'
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'java'
 apply plugin: 'de.thetaphi.forbiddenapis'
 apply plugin: 'jacoco'
-apply plugin: 'maven'
 apply plugin: 'signing'
 apply plugin: 'io.codearte.nexus-staging'
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ dependencies {
 }
 
 wrapper {
-    gradleVersion = '6.9.2'
+    gradleVersion = '7.6'
 }
 
 test {
@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ task javadocJar(type: Jar) {
     from javadoc
 }
 
-artifacts {
-    archives javadocJar, sourcesJar
+java {
+    withJavadocJar()
+    withSourcesJar()
 }
 
 signing {
@@ -106,6 +107,12 @@ signing {
     sign configurations.archives
 }
 
+release {
+    git {
+        requireBranch.set('master')
+    }
+}
+
 //provide defaults so we do not need to specify them always
 if (!project.hasProperty('ossrhUsername')) {
     ext.ossrhUsername = ''
@@ -114,52 +121,49 @@ if (!project.hasProperty('ossrhPassword')) {
     ext.ossrhPassword = ''
 }
 
-uploadArchives {
-  repositories {
-    mavenDeployer {
-        //noinspection GrUnresolvedAccess
-        beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }
-
-        repository(url: 'https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/') {
-        authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
-      }
-
-      snapshotRepository(url: 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/') {
-        authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
-      }
-
-    pom.project {
-        name 'CommonCrawl Document Download'
-        packaging 'jar'
-        // optionally artifactId can be defined here
-        description 'Common utilities I find useful in many of my projects.'
-        url 'https://github.com/centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
-
-        scm {
-            connection 'scm:git@github.com:centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
-            developerConnection 'scm:git@github.com:centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
-            url 'https://github.com/centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
-        }
-
-        licenses {
-          license {
-            name 'BSD 2-Clause License'
-            url 'https://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php'
-          }
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        maven(MavenPublication) {
+            from components.java
+
+            pom {
+                name = 'CommonCrawl Document Download'
+                description = 'Helper tools to download data from CommonCrawl archives'
+                url = 'https://github.com/centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
+                licenses {
+                    license {
+                        name = 'BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License'
+                        url = 'https://github.com/centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload/blob/master/LICENSE.md'
+                    }
+                }
+                developers {
+                    developer {
+                        id = 'centic9'
+                        name = 'Dominik Stadler'
+                    }
+                }
+                scm {
+                    connection = 'scm:git@github.com:centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
+                    developerConnection = 'scm:git@github.com:centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
+                    url = 'https://github.com/centic9/CommonCrawlDocumentDownload'
+                }
+            }
         }
-
-        developers {
-          developer {
-            id 'centic9	'
-            name 'Dominik Stadler'
-          }
+    }
+    repositories {
+        maven {
+            // change to point to your repo, e.g. http://my.org/repo
+            url = layout.buildDirectory.dir('repo')
+            //url = 'https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/'
+            // authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
+            /* snapshotRepository(url: 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/') {
+                authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
+            } */
         }
-      }
     }
-  }
 }
 
-afterReleaseBuild.dependsOn uploadArchives
+//afterReleaseBuild.dependsOn uploadArchives
 
 task lookupURLs(type:JavaExec,dependsOn: compileJava) {
 	description = 'Reads the current Common Crawl URL index data and extracts all URLs for interesting mime-types or file extensions'
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index e708b1c0..943f0cbf 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 ec991f9a..f398c33c 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-6.9.2-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 1b6c7873..65dcd68d 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 $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -205,6 +209,12 @@ set -- \
         org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
         "$@"
 
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
 # Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
 #
 # With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 107acd32..93e3f59f 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
 
-@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
 @rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
 
 set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto execute
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
@@ -75,13 +76,15 @@ set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
 
 :fail
 rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
 rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
-exit /b 1
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
 
 :mainEnd
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal