diff --git a/inception/inception-io-xml/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/user-guide/formats-xml-custom.adoc b/inception/inception-io-xml/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/user-guide/formats-xml-custom.adoc
index b0cdcb64c6e..5ffa0cec429 100644
--- a/inception/inception-io-xml/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/user-guide/formats-xml-custom.adoc
+++ b/inception/inception-io-xml/src/main/resources/META-INF/asciidoc/user-guide/formats-xml-custom.adoc
@@ -53,17 +53,17 @@ tt|p {
   border-radius: 0.5em;
   margin-top: 0.25em;
   margin-bottom: 0.25em;
+}
 
-  &::before {
-    border-radius: 0.5em 0em 0em 0.5em;
-    display: inline-block;
-    padding-left: 0.5em;
-    padding-right: 0.5em;
-    margin-right: 0.5em;
-    background-color: lightgray;
-    min-width: 10em;
-    content: attr(agent) '\a0';
-  }
+tt|p::before {
+  border-radius: 0.5em 0em 0em 0.5em;
+  display: inline-block;
+  padding-left: 0.5em;
+  padding-right: 0.5em;
+  margin-right: 0.5em;
+  background-color: lightgray;
+  min-width: 10em;
+  content: attr(agent) '\a0';
 }
 ----
 
diff --git a/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/PreferencesServiceImpl.java b/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/PreferencesServiceImpl.java
index 4cebf8a9d92..96b7d995d1a 100644
--- a/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/PreferencesServiceImpl.java
+++ b/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/PreferencesServiceImpl.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@
 import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.preferences.model.DefaultProjectPreference;
 import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.preferences.model.UserPreference;
 import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.preferences.model.UserProjectPreference;
+import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.preferences.model.UserProjectPreference_;
 import de.tudarmstadt.ukp.inception.support.json.JSONUtil;
 
 /**
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@
 public class PreferencesServiceImpl
     implements PreferencesService
 {
-    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PreferencesServiceImpl.class);
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
 
     private final @PersistenceContext EntityManager entityManager;
 
@@ -243,14 +245,14 @@ public List<UserProjectPreference> listUserPreferencesForProject(Project aProjec
     {
         requireNonNull(aProject, "Parameter [project] must be specified");
 
-        String query = String.join("\n", //
-                "FROM UserProjectPreference ", //
-                "WHERE project = :project");
+        var builder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
+        var query = builder.createQuery(UserProjectPreference.class);
+        var root = query.from(UserProjectPreference.class);
 
-        return entityManager //
-                .createQuery(query, UserProjectPreference.class) //
-                .setParameter("project", aProject) //
-                .getResultList();
+        query.select(root);
+        query.where(builder.equal(root.get(UserProjectPreference_.project), aProject));
+
+        return entityManager.createQuery(query).getResultList();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/resources/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/model/db-changelog.xml b/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/resources/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/model/db-changelog.xml
index 9f791a87ac7..6ce5005e232 100644
--- a/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/resources/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/model/db-changelog.xml
+++ b/inception/inception-preferences/src/main/resources/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/inception/preferences/model/db-changelog.xml
@@ -118,9 +118,7 @@
 
   <changeSet author="INCEpTION Team" id="20240307-1">
     <preConditions onFail="MARK_RAN">
-      <not>
-        <tableExists tableName="user_project_preference" />
-      </not>
+      <tableExists tableName="user_project_preference" />
     </preConditions>
     <delete tableName="user_project_preference">
       <where>user IS NULL</where>
@@ -134,9 +132,7 @@
 
   <changeSet author="INCEpTION Team" id="20240307-2">
     <preConditions onFail="MARK_RAN">
-      <not>
-        <tableExists tableName="user_preference" />
-      </not>
+      <tableExists tableName="user_preference" />
     </preConditions>
     <delete tableName="user_project_preference">
       <where>user IS NULL</where>
@@ -146,11 +142,9 @@
 
   <changeSet author="INCEpTION Team" id="20240307-3">
     <preConditions onFail="MARK_RAN">
-      <not>
-        <tableExists tableName="default_project_preference" />
-      </not>
+      <tableExists tableName="default_project_preference" />
     </preConditions>
-    <delete tableName="user_project_preference">
+    <delete tableName="default_project_preference">
       <where>project IS NULL</where>
     </delete>
     <addNotNullConstraint tableName="default_project_preference" columnName="project" columnDataType="BIGINT"/>