diff --git a/app/build.gradle.kts b/app/build.gradle.kts
index 8917647f..d7a73440 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle.DokkaTask
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
 import java.net.URL
-import kotlin.io.outputStream
 
 plugins {
     id("com.android.application")
@@ -63,9 +62,13 @@ android {
         versionCode = 63
         versionName = "4.3.1"
 
-        val commitHashFile = layout.buildDirectory.file("commit-hash.txt")
+        // retrieve latest commit hash
+        val gitVersion = providers.exec {
+            commandLine("git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD")
+        }.standardOutput.asText.get()
+
         resValue("string", "app_version", "${defaultConfig.versionName}${versionNameSuffix ?: ""}")
-        resValue("string", "commit_hash", file(commitHashFile).readText())
+        resValue("string", "commit_hash", gitVersion)
         resValue("bool", "is_prerelease", "false")
 
         // Reads local.properties
@@ -233,22 +236,6 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("androidx.work:work-runtime:2.9.0")
     implementation("androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx:2.9.0")
     implementation("com.github.Blatzar:NiceHttp:0.4.11") // HTTP Lib
-    implementation("com.github.Blatzar:NiceHttp:0.4.11") // HTTP Lib
-}
-
-tasks.register<Exec>("retrieveCommitHash") {
-    // task needed because configurationCache does not support parallel git commands
-    group = "build"
-    description = "Retrieves the commit hash."
-
-    doFirst {
-        commandLine("git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD")
-        val commitOutput = layout.projectDirectory.file("commit-hash.txt")
-        standardOutput = commitOutput.asFile.outputStream()
-    }
-
-    outputs.file(layout.projectDirectory.file("commit-hash.txt"))
-    mustRunAfter(tasks.assemble)
 }
 
 tasks.register("androidSourcesJar", Jar::class) {
diff --git a/app/build/commit-hash.txt b/app/build/commit-hash.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f1002249..00000000
--- a/app/build/commit-hash.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2b7d102
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index 1066ffc5..d2959529 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.2.2")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.2.1")
         classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.9.22")
         classpath("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:1.9.10")
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ allprojects {
 }
 
 plugins {
-    id("com.google.devtools.ksp") version "1.9.22-1.0.17" apply false
+    id("com.google.devtools.ksp") version "1.9.22-1.0.16" apply false
 }
 
 tasks.register<Delete>("clean") {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 2a0af4b4..fc2d0f86 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Fri Apr 30 17:11:15 CEST 2021
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.6-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME