diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 90f2f3c..1a2069e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # suppress inspection "UnusedProperty" for whole file
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xms32M -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication
 
-loader_version=0.15.6
+loader_version=0.15.7
 viaver_version=4.10.0-24w07a-SNAPSHOT
 yaml_version=2.2
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 1af9e09..a80b22c 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-8.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.6-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index d449684..a5a3d5d 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
 if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail
 
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
 
 if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail
 
diff --git a/viafabric-mc120/build.gradle.kts b/viafabric-mc120/build.gradle.kts
index b1f19bd..e3097a2 100644
--- a/viafabric-mc120/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/viafabric-mc120/build.gradle.kts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dependencies {
     minecraft("com.mojang:minecraft:1.20.4")
     mappings("net.fabricmc:yarn:1.20.4+build.3:v2")
 
-    modImplementation("net.fabricmc.fabric-api:fabric-api:0.95.0+1.20.4")
+    modImplementation("net.fabricmc.fabric-api:fabric-api:0.96.1+1.20.4")
     modImplementation("com.terraformersmc:modmenu:9.0.0")
 }