diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 7308e5f6..91a44979 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ allprojects {
 
 version = distVersion()
 
+configurations {
+  lessCss
+}
+
 dependencies {
   implementation 'org.commonmark:commonmark:0.24.0'
   implementation 'org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink:0.24.0'
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ dependencies {
   implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.19.1'
   implementation 'rome:rome:1.0'
 
-  implementation('org.lesscss:lesscss:1.7.0.1.1') {
+  lessCss('org.lesscss:lesscss:1.7.0.1.1') {
     exclude group: 'org.mozilla', module: 'rhino'
     exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-api'
     exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-simple'
@@ -319,3 +323,52 @@ tasks.register('distTar', Tar) {
   destinationDirectory = file(outputDir)
   archiveFileName = outputFile
 }
+
+// Task to patch the lesscss JAR file
+// This task modifies the lessc-rhino-1.7.0.js file in the JAR to comment out an annoying console.log statement (“done”)
+def patchLessCssJar = tasks.register('patchLessCssJar') {
+  def name = 'lesscss-1.7.0.1.1'
+  def targetFile = 'META-INF/lessc-rhino-1.7.0.js' // File to patch
+  def tempDir = file("${buildDir}/${name}") // Temporary directory for extraction
+  def patchedJar = file("${buildDir}/${name}-patched.jar") // Output patched JAR
+
+  outputs.file patchedJar
+
+  doLast {
+    if (tempDir.exists()) {
+      tempDir.deleteDir()
+    }
+    tempDir.mkdirs()
+
+    def jarFile = configurations.lessCss.find {
+      it.name.contains(name)
+    }
+
+    println "Patching $jarFile…"
+    ant.unzip(src: jarFile, dest: tempDir)
+
+    def targetFilePath = new File(tempDir, targetFile)
+    def content = targetFilePath.text
+    content = content.replace('console.log("done")', '// console.log("done")')
+    targetFilePath.text = content
+
+    ant.zip(destfile: patchedJar) {
+      fileset(dir: tempDir)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Ensure the patchLessCssJar task runs before the classes task
+tasks.named('build').configure {
+  dependsOn patchLessCssJar
+}
+
+// Exclude the original lesscss JAR from the runtime classpath
+// and include the patched JAR instead
+configurations.runtimeClasspath {
+  exclude group: 'org.lesscss', module: 'lesscss'
+
+  dependencies {
+    runtimeOnly(patchLessCssJar.map { it.outputs.files })
+  }
+}
diff --git a/code/Global/Global.js b/code/Global/Global.js
index 2019d0a2..70867f6d 100644
--- a/code/Global/Global.js
+++ b/code/Global/Global.js
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ String.ELLIPSIS = '…';
 
 app.addRepository(app.dir + '/../lib/jdom-1.0.jar');
 app.addRepository(app.dir + '/../lib/jsoup-1.19.1.jar');
-app.addRepository(app.dir + '/../lib/lesscss-1.7.0.1.1.jar');
+// See the patchLessCssJar task in build.gradle
+app.addRepository(app.dir + '/../lib/lesscss-1.7.0.1.1-patched.jar');
 app.addRepository(app.dir + '/../lib/rome-1.0.jar');
 
 app.addRepository('modules/core/Global.js');
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index a4b76b95..9bbc975c 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 e18bc253..37f853b1 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-8.12.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.13-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index f3b75f3b..faf93008 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fi
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
 # Collect all arguments for the java command:
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_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.