diff --git a/Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Common/support/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties b/Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Common/support/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 94113f200e..cea7a793a8 100644
--- a/Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Common/support/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Common/support/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradle/hasPythonPackage.gradle b/gradle/hasPythonPackage.gradle
index d98f29c404..b88c8bb85a 100644
--- a/gradle/hasPythonPackage.gradle
+++ b/gradle/hasPythonPackage.gradle
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ task buildPyPackage {
 	
 		File setuptools = project(":Debugger-rmi-trace").findPyDep(".")
 		exec {
-			workingDir { "build/pypkg" }
+			workingDir { file("build/pypkg") }
 			commandLine rootProject.PYTHON3
 			args "-m", "pip", "wheel", "-w", "dist/", "--no-index", "--no-deps", "-f", setuptools, "."
 		}