diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index afe8fa8..6cf6598 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ android {
         applicationId "ai.elimu.content_provider"
         minSdkVersion 24
         targetSdkVersion 34
-        versionCode 1002022
-        versionName "1.2.22-SNAPSHOT"
+        versionCode 1002026
+        versionName "1.2.26-SNAPSHOT"
         setProperty("archivesBaseName", "${applicationId}-${versionCode}")
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         javaCompileOptions {
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index c26ebdb..19fb700 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.1.4'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.1.3'
         classpath 'org.ajoberstar.grgit:grgit-gradle:5.0.0'
         
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index ccebba7..7f93135 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 309b4e1..28f5a62 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-8.4-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 79a61d4..1aa94a4 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -83,10 +83,8 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-# 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"'
+# 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
@@ -133,10 +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.
@@ -144,7 +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
@@ -152,7 +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 $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -197,11 +198,15 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
-# 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.
+
+# 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, 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/utils/build.gradle b/utils/build.gradle
index 24f3f3b..0e27ead 100644
--- a/utils/build.gradle
+++ b/utils/build.gradle
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'com.android.library'
+    id 'maven-publish'
 }
 
 android {
@@ -9,8 +10,8 @@ android {
     defaultConfig {
         minSdkVersion 24
         targetSdkVersion 34
-        versionCode 1002022
-        versionName "1.2.22-SNAPSHOT"
+        versionCode 1002026
+        versionName "1.2.26-SNAPSHOT"
         setProperty("archivesBaseName", "utils-${versionName}")
     }
 
@@ -29,3 +30,22 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.github.elimu-ai:model:model-2.0.66' // See https://jitpack.io/#elimu-ai/model
     implementation 'com.github.elimu-ai:analytics:3.1.11@aar' // See https://jitpack.io/#elimu-ai/analytics
 }
+
+// See https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.publish.maven.MavenPublication.html
+// Usage: ./gradlew clean build publish -PmavenUsername=***** -PmavenPassword=*****
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        utils(MavenPublication) {
+            groupId 'ai.elimu.content_provider'
+            artifactId 'utils'
+            version '1.2.26-SNAPSHOT'
+            artifact("${buildDir}/outputs/aar/utils-${version}-release.aar")
+        }
+    }
+    repositories {
+        maven {
+            credentials(PasswordCredentials)
+            url "https://maven.pkg.github.com/elimu-ai/content-provider"
+        }
+    }
+}