diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index a4b76b9530d..9bbc975c742 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 e18bc253b85..37f853b1c84 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-8.12.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.13-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index f3b75f3b0d4..faf93008b77 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fi
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
 # Collect all arguments for the java command:
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
 #     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
 #   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
 #     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidates.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidates.java
index 823cd3c1b54..ddc99031885 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidates.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidates.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2025 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2022 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 import org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
-import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 
 /**
  * Contains {@code @Configuration} import candidates, usually auto-configurations.
@@ -74,8 +73,7 @@ public final class ImportCandidates implements Iterable<String> {
 	 * Every line contains the full qualified name of the candidate class. Comments are
 	 * supported using the # character.
 	 * @param annotation annotation to load
-	 * @param classLoader class loader to use for loading, or {@code null} to use the
-	 * {@link ClassUtils#getDefaultClassLoader() default class loader}
+	 * @param classLoader class loader to use for loading
 	 * @return list of names of annotated classes
 	 */
 	public static ImportCandidates load(Class<?> annotation, ClassLoader classLoader) {
@@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ public final class ImportCandidates implements Iterable<String> {
 
 	private static ClassLoader decideClassloader(ClassLoader classLoader) {
 		if (classLoader == null) {
-			return ClassUtils.getDefaultClassLoader();
+			return ImportCandidates.class.getClassLoader();
 		}
 		return classLoader;
 	}
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidatesTests.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidatesTests.java
index 8af49ee43a1..b1056a86009 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidatesTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/context/annotation/ImportCandidatesTests.java
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ class ImportCandidatesTests {
 
 			""")
 	void loadReadsFromClasspathFile() {
-		ImportCandidates candidates = ImportCandidates.load(TestAnnotation.class, null);
+		ImportCandidates candidates = ImportCandidates.load(TestAnnotation.class,
+				Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
 		assertThat(candidates).containsExactly("class1", "class2", "class3");
 	}