diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 58b28a6a..76ea5176 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ plugins {
     id 'signing'
     id 'checkstyle'
     id 'jacoco'
-    id "com.diffplug.gradle.spotless" version "3.27.0"
-    id 'org.sonarqube' version '2.8'
+    id "com.diffplug.spotless" version "6.1.0"
+    id 'org.sonarqube' version '3.3'
     // id "io.codearte.nexus-staging" version "0.12.0"
 }
 
diff --git a/dependencies.gradle b/dependencies.gradle
index a5e41c34..6be6988c 100644
--- a/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/dependencies.gradle
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 project.ext.versions = [
     checkstyle: '8.18',
-    jacoco: '0.8.3',
+    jacoco: '0.8.7',
     atlas: '7.0.4',
     spark: '3.0.1',
     snappy: '1.1.1.6',
     atlas_checkstyle: '5.6.9',
-    jline: '3.7.0'
+    jline: '3.21.0'
 ]
 
 project.ext.packages = [
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index da9702f9..19c92df2 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-6.8-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=8b356fd8702d5ffa2e066ed0be45a023a779bba4dd1a68fd11bc2a6bdc981e8f
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9.2-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/atlas/generator/tools/spark/persistence/PersistenceTools.java b/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/atlas/generator/tools/spark/persistence/PersistenceTools.java
index 59487bc5..469ffb81 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/atlas/generator/tools/spark/persistence/PersistenceTools.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/atlas/generator/tools/spark/persistence/PersistenceTools.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.openstreetmap.atlas.exception.CoreException;
 import org.openstreetmap.atlas.generator.sharding.AtlasSharding;
 import org.openstreetmap.atlas.generator.tools.spark.SparkJob;
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ public class PersistenceTools
 
     private static final Integer BUFFER_SIZE = 4 * 1024;
     private final Map<String, String> configurationMap;
-    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(PersistenceTools.class);
 
     public PersistenceTools(final Map<String, String> configurationMap)
     {
@@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ public CountryBoundaryMap boundaries(final String input)
         }
         catch (final Exception e)
         {
-            logger.error(e);
             throw new CoreException("Could not close {}",
                     SparkFileHelper.combine(input, BOUNDARIES_FILE), e);
         }