diff --git a/.github/workflows/gradle-build.yml b/.github/workflows/gradle-build.yml
index 6e8ce08..870a5c0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gradle-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gradle-build.yml
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macos-latest, windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
-        java-version: [11, 17]
-        graalvm-version: ['22.3.3']
+        java-version: [17, 21]
         graalvm-distribution: ['graalvm-community']
       fail-fast: false
 
@@ -32,20 +31,10 @@ jobs:
           restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-
 
       - name: Set up GraalVM ${{ matrix.graalvm-distribution }} for Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-        if: matrix.java-version == 17
         uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@v1
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
           distribution: ${{ matrix.graalvm-distribution }}
-          components: 'native-image'
-
-      - name: Set up GraalVM ${{ matrix.graalvm-version }} for Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-        if: matrix.java-version == 11
-        uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@v1
-        with:
-          java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-          version: ${{ matrix.graalvm-version }}
-          components: 'native-image'
 
       - name: Report Java version
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven-build.yml b/.github/workflows/maven-build.yml
index 5eac846..e4d3e94 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/maven-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven-build.yml
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macos-latest, windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
-        java-version: [11, 17]
-        graalvm-version: ['22.3.3']
+        java-version: [17, 21]
         graalvm-distribution: ['graalvm-community']
       fail-fast: false
 
@@ -22,20 +21,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Set up GraalVM ${{ matrix.graalvm-distribution }} for Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-        if: matrix.java-version == 17
         uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@v1
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
           distribution: ${{ matrix.graalvm-distribution }}
-          components: 'native-image'
-
-      - name: Set up GraalVM ${{ matrix.graalvm-version }} for Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-        if: matrix.java-version == 11
-        uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@v1
-        with:
-          java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-          version: ${{ matrix.graalvm-version }}
-          components: 'native-image'
 
       - name: Report Java version
         run: |
@@ -52,22 +41,22 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Package Linux artifact
         if: runner.os == 'Linux'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: lwjgl3-helloworld ${{ runner.os }} native image with SubstrateVM Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-          path: target/native-image-linux/lwjgl3-helloworld**
+          path: target/lwjgl3-helloworld
 
       - name: Package MacOS artifact
         if: runner.os == 'macOS'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: lwjgl3-helloworld ${{ runner.os }} native image with SubstrateVM Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-          path: target/native-image-macos/lwjgl3-helloworld*
+          path: target/lwjgl3-helloworld
 
       - name: Package Windows artifact
         if: runner.os == 'Windows'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: lwjgl3-helloworld ${{ runner.os }} native image with SubstrateVM Java ${{ matrix.java-version }}
-          path: target/native-image-windows/lwjgl3-helloworld.exe
+          path: target/lwjgl3-helloworld.exe
 
diff --git a/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties b/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
index 8d98d6d..4a95a13 100644
--- a/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
+++ b/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
 # KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
-distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.4/apache-maven-3.9.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.6/apache-maven-3.9.6-bin.zip
 wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wrapper/maven-wrapper/3.1.0/maven-wrapper-3.1.0.jar
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 07a0761..6277bf3 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 plugins {
     id 'application'
-    id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.9.25'
+    id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.9.28'
     id 'com.google.osdetector' version '1.7.3'
 }
 
 tasks.wrapper {
-    gradleVersion = '8.3'
+    gradleVersion = '8.5'
     distributionType = Wrapper.DistributionType.ALL
 }
 
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ ext {
 
     mainClassName = 'com.github.chirontt.lwjgl.demo.HelloWorld'
     currentPlatform = getCurrentPlatform()
-    nativeImageDirName = "native-image-$currentPlatform"
 }
 
 repositories {
@@ -129,29 +128,6 @@ task uberJar(type: Jar) {
     duplicatesStrategy 'exclude'
 }
 
-//remove unneeded .dll/.txt files
-task removeUnneededDllFiles {
-    doLast {
-        if (file("$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName").exists()) {
-            ant.move(todir: "$buildDir/tmp/$nativeImageDirName") {
-                fileset(dir: "$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName") {
-                    include name: '*.dll'
-                    include name: '*.pdb'
-                    include name: '*.txt'
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        if (file("$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName/reports").exists()) {
-            ant.move(file: "$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName/reports",
-                     tofile: "$buildDir/tmp/$nativeImageDirName/reports")
-        }
-        if (file("$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName/sources").exists()) {
-            ant.move(file: "$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName/sources",
-                     tofile: "$buildDir/tmp/$nativeImageDirName/sources")
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 graalvmNative {
     toolchainDetection = false
     binaries {
@@ -164,9 +140,7 @@ graalvmNative {
 
             buildArgs.add('--initialize-at-run-time=org.lwjgl')
             buildArgs.add('--native-image-info')
-            //buildArgs.add('-march=native') //only available in GraalVM for JDK 17+
-            buildArgs.add("-H:Path=$buildDir/$nativeImageDirName")
-            buildArgs.add("-H:TempDirectory=$buildDir/tmp/$nativeImageDirName")
+            buildArgs.add('-march=compatibility') //only available in GraalVM for JDK 17+
             //buildArgs.add('-H:+TraceNativeToolUsage')
 
             useFatJar = false
@@ -181,6 +155,5 @@ tasks.named("nativeCompile") {
     //use the uber jar if long classpath becomes a problem in Windows:
     //dependsOn uberJar
     //classpathJar = uberJar.archiveFile
-    finalizedBy removeUnneededDllFiles
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index c1962a7..d64cd49 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 03bc515..e6aba25 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index aeb74cb..1aa94a4 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -130,10 +131,13 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -198,11 +202,11 @@ 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
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 054e106..0bae2bd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.plugin.version>3.11.0</maven.compiler.plugin.version>
         <maven.shade.plugin.version>3.5.0</maven.shade.plugin.version>
         <lwjgl.version>3.3.3-SNAPSHOT</lwjgl.version>
-        <native.maven.plugin.version>0.9.25</native.maven.plugin.version>
-        <native.image.dir.name>native-image-${platform}</native.image.dir.name>
+        <native.maven.plugin.version>0.9.28</native.maven.plugin.version>
         <exec.mainClass>com.github.chirontt.lwjgl.demo.HelloWorld</exec.mainClass>
         <!-- system properties for the application when run by exec:exec command;
              can be specified on the command line with -Dsys.props="..."
@@ -216,7 +215,6 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
                 <configuration>
-                    <!-- outputDir>${project.build.directory}/${native.image.dir.name}</outputDir -->
                     <imageName>${project.name}</imageName>
                     <mainClass>${exec.mainClass}</mainClass>
                     <metadataRepository>
@@ -227,10 +225,8 @@
                         <buildArg>--initialize-at-run-time=org.lwjgl</buildArg>
                         <buildArg>--native-image-info</buildArg>
                         <buildArg>--verbose</buildArg>
-                        <!-- buildArg>-march=native</buildArg --> <!-- only available in GraalVM for JDK 17+ -->
+                        <buildArg>-march=compatibility</buildArg> <!-- only available in GraalVM for JDK 17+ -->
                         <!-- buildArg>-H:+TraceNativeToolUsage</buildArg -->
-                        <buildArg>-H:TempDirectory=${project.build.directory}/tmp/${native.image.dir.name}</buildArg>
-                        <buildArg>-H:Path=${project.build.directory}/${native.image.dir.name}</buildArg>
                     </buildArgs>
                     <skip>false</skip>
                     <!-- use the uber jar for native image compiling 
@@ -250,7 +246,7 @@
                 <version>3.1.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
-                        <id>remove-unneeded-dll-files</id>
+                        <id>fix-uber-jar-manifest</id>
                         <phase>package</phase>
                         <goals>
                             <goal>run</goal>
@@ -269,17 +265,6 @@
                                 <attribute name="Main-Class" value="${exec.mainClass}"/>
                             </manifest>
                         </jar>
-                        <move todir="${project.build.directory}/tmp/${native.image.dir.name}"
-                              failonerror="false" quiet="true">
-                            <fileset dir="${project.build.directory}/${native.image.dir.name}">
-                                <include name="*.dll"/>
-                                <include name="*.pdb"/>
-                                <include name="*.txt"/>
-                            </fileset>
-                        </move>
-                        <move file="${project.build.directory}/${native.image.dir.name}/reports"
-                              tofile="${project.build.directory}/tmp/${native.image.dir.name}/reports"
-                              failonerror="false" quiet="true"/>
                     </target>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>