diff --git a/disk-buffering/build.gradle.kts b/disk-buffering/build.gradle.kts
index 8250c1bdf..715b85c56 100644
--- a/disk-buffering/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/disk-buffering/build.gradle.kts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import ru.vyarus.gradle.plugin.animalsniffer.AnimalSniffer
 plugins {
   id("otel.java-conventions")
   id("otel.publish-conventions")
-  id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
+  id("com.gradleup.shadow")
   id("me.champeau.jmh") version "0.7.3"
   id("ru.vyarus.animalsniffer") version "2.0.1"
   id("com.squareup.wire") version "5.3.5"
diff --git a/gcp-auth-extension/build.gradle.kts b/gcp-auth-extension/build.gradle.kts
index fd95a653f..f81e5e521 100644
--- a/gcp-auth-extension/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/gcp-auth-extension/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 plugins {
   id("otel.java-conventions")
   id("otel.publish-conventions")
-  id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
-  id("org.springframework.boot") version "2.7.18"
+  id("com.gradleup.shadow")
 }
 
 description = "OpenTelemetry extension that provides GCP authentication support for OTLP exporters"
@@ -14,6 +13,8 @@ val agent: Configuration by configurations.creating {
 }
 
 dependencies {
+  implementation(platform("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:2.7.18"))
+
   annotationProcessor("com.google.auto.service:auto-service")
   // We use `compileOnly` dependency because during runtime all necessary classes are provided by
   // javaagent itself.
@@ -88,11 +89,6 @@ tasks {
   assemble {
     dependsOn(shadowJar)
   }
-
-  bootJar {
-    // disable bootJar in build since it only runs as part of test
-    enabled = false
-  }
 }
 
 val builtLibsDir = layout.buildDirectory.dir("libs").get().asFile.absolutePath
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 1b33c55ba..8bdaf60c7 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 78cb6e16a..3e781fbad 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=bd71102213493060956ec229d946beee57158dbd89d0e62b91bca0fa2c5f3531
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=8fad3d78296ca518113f3d29016617c7f9367dc005f932bd9d93bf45ba46072b
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.0.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 23d15a936..ef07e0162 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 #
-# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
+# Copyright © 2015 the original authors.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/jmx-metrics/build.gradle.kts b/jmx-metrics/build.gradle.kts
index 77ff2c243..b254fc1d8 100644
--- a/jmx-metrics/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/jmx-metrics/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 plugins {
   id("otel.java-conventions")
   application
-  id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
+  id("com.gradleup.shadow")
 
   id("otel.groovy-conventions")
   id("otel.publish-conventions")
diff --git a/jmx-scraper/build.gradle.kts b/jmx-scraper/build.gradle.kts
index d58fa6490..9ef9a7277 100644
--- a/jmx-scraper/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/jmx-scraper/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
   application
-  id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
+  id("com.gradleup.shadow")
 
   id("otel.java-conventions")
 
diff --git a/maven-extension/build.gradle.kts b/maven-extension/build.gradle.kts
index a2972d0ea..15755f0ce 100644
--- a/maven-extension/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/maven-extension/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
   id("java")
-  id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
+  id("com.gradleup.shadow")
   id("otel.java-conventions")
   id("otel.publish-conventions")
 }
diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index bc4b5a1de..ed7366ed7 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pluginManagement {
   plugins {
-    id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow") version "8.1.1"
+    id("com.gradleup.shadow") version "9.0.0-rc3"
     id("io.github.gradle-nexus.publish-plugin") version "2.0.0"
     id("com.gradle.develocity") version "4.1"
   }