diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index cdad2c55..5acc94a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: antville
 
     environment:
-      name: weblogs.at
-      url: https://weblogs.at
+      name: antville.org
+      url: https://antville.org
 
     steps:
       - name: Copy files to production server
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b189f260..52994244 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 name: Release
 
 on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
   push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v*'
+    tags: '2*'
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
       LC_TIME: en_US.UTF-8
+      TODAY: $(date +'%d %b %Y')
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -23,6 +24,18 @@ jobs:
         run: ./gradlew assembleDist
 
       - name: Create release
+        uses: actions/forgejo-release@v2
+        with:
+          direction: upload
+          url: https://code.host.antville.org
+          token: ${{ github.token }}
+          title: ${{ env.TODAY }}
+          #tag: $(date +'%Y.%m.%d')
+          release-dir: build/distributions
+          release-notes-assistant: true
+          verbose: true
+
+      - name: Create release at GitHub
         # FIXME: Currently only outputs gh command; adapt for Forgejo
         run: |
           echo gh release create "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
@@ -30,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
             --title "$(date +'%d %b %Y')" \
             --generate-notes
 
-      - name: Upload assets
+      - name: Upload release assets to GitHub
         # FIXME: Currently only outputs gh command; adapt for Forgejo
         run: |
           echo gh release upload "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index bcae67c6..9bde766c 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -58,16 +58,16 @@ configurations {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-  implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.11.0'
+  implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.12.1'
   implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.18.0'
   implementation 'commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.5'
-  implementation 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.3.4'
+  implementation 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.3.5'
   implementation 'commons-net:commons-net:3.11.1'
   implementation 'com.sun.mail:javax.mail:1.6.2'
   implementation 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:4.0.1'
   implementation 'org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup:1.2.1'
-  implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlet:9.4.56.v20240826'
-  implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-xml:9.4.56.v20240826'
+  implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlet:9.4.57.v20241219'
+  implementation 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-xml:9.4.57.v20241219'
   implementation 'org.mozilla:rhino-all:1.8.0'
   implementation 'org.sejda.imageio:webp-imageio:0.1.6'
   implementation 'xerces:xercesImpl:2.12.2'
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index cea7a793..e18bc253 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-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.12.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/src/main/java/helma/main/Server.java b/src/main/java/helma/main/Server.java
index 6155de3b..88d70db7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/helma/main/Server.java
+++ b/src/main/java/helma/main/Server.java
@@ -149,12 +149,13 @@ public class Server implements Runnable {
       * check if we are running on a Java 2 VM - otherwise exit with an error message
       */
     public static void checkJavaVersion() {
-        String javaVersion = System.getProperty("java.version");
+        String javaVersion = System.getProperty("java.version", "0");
+        int majorVersion = Integer.parseInt(javaVersion.split("\\.")[0]);
 
-        if ((javaVersion == null) || !javaVersion.startsWith("11")) {
+        if (majorVersion < 11) {
             System.err.println("This version of Helma requires Java 11 or greater.");
 
-            if (javaVersion == null) { // don't think this will ever happen, but you never know
+            if (majorVersion == 0) { // don't think this will ever happen, but you never know
                 System.err.println("Your Java Runtime did not provide a version number. Please update to a more recent version.");
             } else {
                 System.err.println("Your Java Runtime is version " + javaVersion +