diff --git a/gradle/validation/check-environment.gradle b/gradle/validation/check-environment.gradle
index 79350362290..7275ac55c96 100644
--- a/gradle/validation/check-environment.gradle
+++ b/gradle/validation/check-environment.gradle
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import org.gradle.util.GradleVersion
 
 configure(rootProject) {
   ext {
-    expectedGradleVersion = '6.8.3'
+    expectedGradleVersion = '7.1.1'
   }
 
   wrapper {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.sha256 b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.sha256
index e85f20f9fe4..168e29f1961 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.sha256
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.sha256
@@ -1 +1 @@
-e996d452d2645e70c01c11143ca2d3742734a28da2bf61f25c82bdc288c9e637
+33ad4583fd7ee156f533778736fa1b4940bd83b433934d1cc4e9f608e99a6a89
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.version b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.version
index 021c9405b1d..21c8c7b46b8 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.version
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar.version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.8.3
+7.1.1
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 8cf6eb5ad22..af7be50b101 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.1.1-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 7ff625a13fb..fe7be72c567 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
+@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
+for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
+
 @rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
 
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
 
 set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto init
+if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ goto fail
 set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
 set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
 
-if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto init
+if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
@@ -66,21 +69,6 @@ echo location of your Java installation.
 
 goto fail
 
-:init
-@rem Get command-line arguments, handling Windows variants
-
-if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto win9xME_args
-
-:win9xME_args
-@rem Slurp the command line arguments.
-set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
-set _SKIP=2
-
-:win9xME_args_slurp
-if "x%~1" == "x" goto execute
-
-set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%*
-
 :execute
 
 @rem LUCENE-9266: verify and download the gradle wrapper jar if we don't have one.
@@ -96,7 +84,7 @@ SET GRADLE_DAEMON_CTRL=
 IF NOT EXIST "%DIRNAME%\gradle.properties" SET GRADLE_DAEMON_CTRL=--no-daemon
 
 @rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %GRADLE_DAEMON_CTRL% %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %GRADLE_DAEMON_CTRL% %*
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell