diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index a52807250..16782ce08 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ buildscript {
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.8.0'
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.8.1'
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:${kotlinVersion}"
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-serialization:${kotlinVersion}"
         classpath 'com.github.spotbugs.snom:spotbugs-gradle-plugin:6.1.4'
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index a5c178230..9e6f9468c 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
          <trusted-key id="0D35D3F60078655126908E8AF3D1600878E85A3D" group="io.netty"/>
          <trusted-key id="0D5989CD63724BA1CA7D92D7C488A74FCAE540C6" group="org.michaelevans.colorart" name="library" version="0.0.3"/>
          <trusted-key id="0D5D634755737A19ABBE2930D4DA5EAB3CD7E958" group="com.google.devtools.ksp" name="symbol-processing-api" version="1.7.0-1.0.6"/>
+         <trusted-key id="0F06FF86BEEAF4E71866EE5232EE5355A6BC6E42">
+            <trusting group="androidx.databinding"/>
+            <trusting group="^com[.]android($|([.].*))" regex="true"/>
+         </trusted-key>
          <trusted-key id="0F07D1201BDDAB67CFB84EB479752DB6C966F0B8" group="com.google.android" name="annotations" version="4.1.1.4"/>
          <trusted-key id="10F3C7A02ECA55E502BADCF3991EFB94DB91127D" group="org.ow2" name="ow2" version="1.5.1"/>
          <trusted-key id="120D6F34E627ED3A772EBBFE55C7E5E701832382">