diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index eb84db68da7..a9db11550c6 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/MethodInvocationTests.java b/spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/MethodInvocationTests.java
index 4f837fa1fbf..26a60b42b83 100644
--- a/spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/MethodInvocationTests.java
+++ b/spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/MethodInvocationTests.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 package org.springframework.expression.spel;
 
-import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ class MethodInvocationTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 		StandardEvaluationContext context = new StandardEvaluationContext();
 		context.setRootObject(new TestObject());
 		LocalFilter filter = new LocalFilter();
-		context.registerMethodFilter(TestObject.class,filter);
+		context.registerMethodFilter(TestObject.class, filter);
 
 		// Filter will be called but not do anything, so first doit() will be invoked
 		SpelExpression expr = (SpelExpression) parser.parseExpression("doit(1)");
@@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ class MethodInvocationTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 
 		// check de-registration works
 		filter.filterCalled = false;
-		context.registerMethodFilter(TestObject.class,null);//clear filter
+		context.registerMethodFilter(TestObject.class, null); // clear filter
 		context.setRootObject(new TestObject());
 		expr = (SpelExpression) parser.parseExpression("doit(1)");
 		result = expr.getValue(context, String.class);
@@ -447,32 +446,20 @@ class MethodInvocationTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 	// Simple filter
 	static class LocalFilter implements MethodFilter {
 
-		public boolean removeIfNotAnnotated = false;
+		boolean removeIfNotAnnotated = false;
 
-		public boolean filterCalled = false;
+		boolean filterCalled = false;
 
 		private boolean isAnnotated(Method method) {
-			Annotation[] anns = method.getAnnotations();
-			if (anns == null) {
-				return false;
-			}
-			for (Annotation ann : anns) {
-				String name = ann.annotationType().getName();
-				if (name.endsWith("Anno")) {
-					return true;
-				}
-			}
-			return false;
+			return method.isAnnotationPresent(Anno.class);
 		}
 
 		@Override
 		public List<Method> filter(List<Method> methods) {
-			filterCalled = true;
+			this.filterCalled = true;
 			List<Method> forRemoval = new ArrayList<>();
-			for (Method method: methods) {
-				if (removeIfNotAnnotated && !isAnnotated(method)) {
-					forRemoval.add(method);
-				}
+			if (this.removeIfNotAnnotated) {
+				methods.stream().filter(method -> !isAnnotated(method)).forEach(forRemoval::add);
 			}
 			for (Method method: forRemoval) {
 				methods.remove(method);
@@ -495,7 +482,7 @@ class MethodInvocationTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 
 		@Anno
 		public String doit(double d) {
-			return "double "+d;
+			return "double " + d;
 		}
 	}