diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2a8f5da..6e5d032 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 .gradle
 build/
 deploy/
+gradle.properties
 
 ### Kotlin/JVM ###
 *.class
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index 3dd9d03..9eae0de 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 group = "net.thauvin.erik"
-version = "1.3.1-SNAPSHOT"
+version = "1.4.0-SNAPSHOT"
diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
index 788b119..15293cb 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ plugins {
 dependencies {
     implementation("com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.44.0")
     implementation("io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-gradle-plugin:1.22.0")
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.7.20")
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.8.0")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.8.10")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.8.21")
     implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kover-gradle-plugin:0.7.0")
     implementation("org.sonarsource.scanner.gradle:sonarqube-gradle-plugin:3.5.0.2730")
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 943f0cb..c1962a7 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 f398c33..37aef8d 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-7.6-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 65dcd68..aeb74cb 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ done
 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"'
-
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
 
@@ -144,7 +141,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -152,7 +149,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -197,6 +194,10 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
+
+# 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"'
+
 # Collect all arguments for the java command;
 #   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
 #     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
diff --git a/lib/pom.xml b/lib/pom.xml
index 8af3e06..5956aa0 100644
--- a/lib/pom.xml
+++ b/lib/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>net.thauvin.erik</groupId>
   <artifactId>urlencoder</artifactId>
-  <version>1.3.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>UrlEncoder for Kotlin</name>
   <description>A simple defensive library to encode/decode URL components</description>
   <url>https://github.com/ethauvin/urlencoder</url>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
       <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib-jdk8</artifactId>
-      <version>1.8.0</version>
+      <version>1.8.21</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
diff --git a/lib/pom.xml.asc b/lib/pom.xml.asc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb5746a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/pom.xml.asc
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
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