diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 96ff54c..d6a90f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ This plugin is also intended to show you, that using gradle as a build system ma
 
 | ES    | Command |
 | ----- | ------- |
+| 7.13.0 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.13.0.1/ingest-opennlp-7.13.0.1.zip` |
 | 7.12.1 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.12.1.1/ingest-opennlp-7.12.1.1.zip` |
 | 7.12.0 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.12.0.1/ingest-opennlp-7.12.0.1.zip` |
 | 7.11.2 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.11.2.1/ingest-opennlp-7.11.2.1.zip` |
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ This plugin is also intended to show you, that using gradle as a build system ma
 | 7.1.0 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.1.0.1/ingest-opennlp-7.1.0.1.zip` |
 | 7.0.1 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.0.1.1/ingest-opennlp-7.0.1.1.zip` |
 | 7.0.0 | `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/7.0.0.1/ingest-opennlp-7.0.0.1.zip` |
+| 6.8.16| `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/6.8.16.1/ingest-opennlp-6.8.16.1.zip` |
 | 6.8.15| `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/6.8.15.1/ingest-opennlp-6.8.15.1.zip` |
 | 6.8.14| `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/6.8.14.1/ingest-opennlp-6.8.14.1.zip` |
 | 6.8.13| `bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp/releases/download/6.8.13.1/ingest-opennlp-6.8.13.1.zip` |
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 6a37b41..30a7873 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ licenseFile = rootProject.file('LICENSE.txt')
 // copyright notices
 noticeFile = rootProject.file('NOTICE.txt')
 
-// disable uploadArchives task for now, no upload happening currently
-uploadArchives.enabled = false
-
 esplugin {
   // license of the plugin, may be different than the above license
   licenseFile rootProject.file('LICENSE.txt')
@@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ githubRelease.doFirst {
 // In this section you declare the dependencies for your production and test code
 // Elasticsearch dependency is included due to the build-tools, test-framework as well
 dependencies {
-  compile 'org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:1.9.3'
+  implementation 'org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:1.9.3'
 
   // the yaml tests require a log4j2 dependency, otherwise a dependency is thrown on startup
   yamlRestTestImplementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.11.1'
@@ -87,7 +84,7 @@ testClusters.all {
 }
 
 // no need to validate pom, as we do not upload to sonatype
-validateNebulaPom.enabled = false
+validateElasticPom.enabled = false
 
 // exlude the models for forbidden API check
 forbiddenApis {
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 665b322..f5859a8 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-elasticsearchVersion = 7.12.1
+elasticsearchVersion = 7.13.0
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 442d913..e5338d3 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-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0.1-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists