diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle b/buildSrc/build.gradle
index f940eec593306..3c3b227312dbf 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ dependencies {
   api 'commons-io:commons-io:2.7'
   api "net.java.dev.jna:jna:5.10.0"
   api 'gradle.plugin.com.github.johnrengelman:shadow:7.1.2'
-  api 'de.thetaphi:forbiddenapis:3.2'
+  api 'de.thetaphi:forbiddenapis:3.3'
   api 'com.avast.gradle:gradle-docker-compose-plugin:0.14.12'
   api 'org.apache.maven:maven-model:3.6.2'
   api 'com.networknt:json-schema-validator:1.0.67'
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LicenseHeadersTask.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LicenseHeadersTask.groovy
index b330934ed2d26..b8d0ed2b9c43c 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LicenseHeadersTask.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LicenseHeadersTask.groovy
@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ import org.opensearch.gradle.AntTask
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SkipWhenEmpty
 
 import java.nio.file.Files
@@ -78,6 +81,8 @@ class LicenseHeadersTask extends AntTask {
      */
     @InputFiles
     @SkipWhenEmpty
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
+    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     List<FileCollection> getJavaFiles() {
         return project.sourceSets.collect({it.allJava})
     }
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/FilePermissionsTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/FilePermissionsTask.java
index 9ffd472151b4b..d525a4a1e2c69 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/FilePermissionsTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/FilePermissionsTask.java
@@ -46,8 +46,11 @@
 import org.gradle.api.GradleException;
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection;
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileTree;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SkipWhenEmpty;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.StopExecutionException;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction;
@@ -92,6 +95,8 @@ private static boolean isExecutableFile(File file) {
      */
     @InputFiles
     @SkipWhenEmpty
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
+    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     public FileCollection getFiles() {
         return GradleUtils.getJavaSourceSets(getProject())
             .stream()
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ForbiddenPatternsTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ForbiddenPatternsTask.java
index f57c190496452..754743b9b784c 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ForbiddenPatternsTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ForbiddenPatternsTask.java
@@ -37,9 +37,12 @@
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection;
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileTree;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginConvention;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SkipWhenEmpty;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.util.PatternFilterable;
@@ -100,6 +103,8 @@ public ForbiddenPatternsTask() {
 
     @InputFiles
     @SkipWhenEmpty
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
+    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     public FileCollection getFiles() {
         return getProject().getConvention()
             .getPlugin(JavaPluginConvention.class)
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LoggerUsageTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LoggerUsageTask.java
index 1fd092b7f268f..ff9f6619d64e6 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LoggerUsageTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/LoggerUsageTask.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginConvention;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.CacheableTask;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Classpath;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ public void setClasspath(FileCollection classpath) {
     @InputFiles
     @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     @SkipWhenEmpty
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
     public FileCollection getClassDirectories() {
         return getProject().getConvention()
             .getPlugin(JavaPluginConvention.class)
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ThirdPartyAuditTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ThirdPartyAuditTask.java
index ee68d2740e279..097710b3f1a6e 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ThirdPartyAuditTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/precommit/ThirdPartyAuditTask.java
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.CacheableTask;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Classpath;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.CompileClasspath;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFile;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ public Set<String> getMissingClassExcludes() {
 
     @Classpath
     @SkipWhenEmpty
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
     public Set<File> getJarsToScan() {
         // These are SelfResolvingDependency, and some of them backed by file collections, like the Gradle API files,
         // or dependencies added as `files(...)`, we can't be sure if those are third party or not.
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestApiTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestApiTask.java
index 399cd39d236d7..1468c4cb1b537 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestApiTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestApiTask.java
@@ -43,9 +43,12 @@
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileTree;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginConvention;
 import org.gradle.api.provider.ListProperty;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputDirectory;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SkipWhenEmpty;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction;
@@ -112,8 +115,10 @@ public boolean isSkipHasRestTestCheck() {
         return skipHasRestTestCheck;
     }
 
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
     @SkipWhenEmpty
     @InputFiles
+    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     public FileTree getInputDir() {
         FileTree coreFileTree = null;
         boolean projectHasYamlRestTests = skipHasRestTestCheck || projectHasYamlRestTests();
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestTestsTask.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestTestsTask.java
index 56ce449f4cf6f..dd94d040cb9d8 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestTestsTask.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/test/rest/CopyRestTestsTask.java
@@ -43,9 +43,12 @@
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileTree;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginConvention;
 import org.gradle.api.provider.ListProperty;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.IgnoreEmptyDirectories;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputDirectory;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SkipWhenEmpty;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction;
@@ -104,8 +107,10 @@ String getSourceSetName() {
         return sourceSetName;
     }
 
+    @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
     @SkipWhenEmpty
     @InputFiles
+    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
     public FileTree getInputDir() {
         FileTree coreFileTree = null;
         if (includeCore.get().isEmpty() == false) {
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/resources/minimumGradleVersion b/buildSrc/src/main/resources/minimumGradleVersion
index ba92e72f5775b..6b0e58e78f5ee 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/resources/minimumGradleVersion
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/resources/minimumGradleVersion
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.6.1
\ No newline at end of file
+7.4.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle/missing-javadoc.gradle b/gradle/missing-javadoc.gradle
index df47a3796c825..05531487f35f3 100644
--- a/gradle/missing-javadoc.gradle
+++ b/gradle/missing-javadoc.gradle
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  */
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity;
 import org.gradle.internal.jvm.Jvm
 
 /**
@@ -178,6 +180,8 @@ configure([
 class MissingJavadocTask extends DefaultTask {
   @InputFiles
   @SkipWhenEmpty
+  @IgnoreEmptyDirectories
+  @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
   SourceDirectorySet srcDirSet;
 
   @OutputDirectory
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 7454180f2ae88..41d9927a4d4fb 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 daf75f8e132cb..30b8947900f87 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.3.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.1-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=c9490e938b221daf0094982288e4038deed954a3f12fb54cbf270ddf4e37d879
+distributionSha256Sum=a9a7b7baba105f6557c9dcf9c3c6e8f7e57e6b49889c5f1d133f015d0727e4be