diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index e03648e..b8a2df8 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.5'
-    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.15.RELEASE'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.6'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
     id 'java'
 }
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ dependencies {
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3
     implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.12.0'
 
-    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.4.5'
+    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.4.6'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.cloudera.impala/jdbc
     implementation("com.cloudera.impala:jdbc:2.5.31") {
@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ dependencies {
         // Avoid excluding 'org.apache.hive:hive-service', as this is needed and unfortunately, even adding a newer version separately, it introducing other vulnerable dependencies.
     }
 
-    // Add back some updated version of the needed dependencies.
-    implementation 'org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.17.0'
-
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.parquet/parquet-avro
     implementation('org.apache.parquet:parquet-avro:1.12.3')
 
@@ -85,6 +82,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'com.google.protobuf', module: 'protobuf-java'
         exclude group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', module: 'jackson-core-asl'
         exclude group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', module: 'jackson-mapper-asl'
+        exclude group: 'com.fasterxml.woodstox', module: 'woodstox-core'
         //exclude group: 'commons-collections', module: 'commons-collections'   // This dependency is required in order for the program to run without errors.
     }
 
@@ -101,6 +99,10 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'io.netty', module: 'netty'
     }
 
+    // Add back some updated version of the needed dependencies.
+    implementation 'org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.17.0'
+    implementation 'com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core:6.4.0'
+
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.json/json
     implementation 'org.json:json:20220924'
 
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cc4b13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.caching.debug=false
+org.gradle.warning.mode=all
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index ae04661..f398c33 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/installAndRun.sh b/installAndRun.sh
index 453d110..ed61024 100755
--- a/installAndRun.sh
+++ b/installAndRun.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-cd "${0%/*}" || (echo "Could not chdir to this script's dir!" && exit)  # Change the working directory to the script's directory, when running from other location.
+# This script installs and runs the project.
+
+# For error-handling, we cannot use the "set -e" since: it has problems https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
+# So we have our own function, for use when a single command fails.
+handle_error () {
+  echo -e "$1"; exit $2
+}
+
+# Change the working directory to the script's directory, when running from another location.
+cd "${0%/*}" || handle_error "Could not change-dir to this script's dir!" 1
 
 justInstall=0
 shouldRunInDocker=0
@@ -9,7 +18,7 @@ elif [[ $# -eq 2 ]]; then
   justInstall=$1
   shouldRunInDocker=$2
 elif [[ $# -gt 2 ]]; then
-	echo -e "Wrong number of arguments given: ${#}\nPlease execute it like: script.sh <justInstall: 0 | 1> <shouldRunInDocker: 0 | 1>";	exit 1
+	echo -e "Wrong number of arguments given: ${#}\nPlease execute it like: script.sh <justInstall: 0 | 1> <shouldRunInDocker: 0 | 1>";	exit 2
 fi
 
 if [[ justInstall -eq 1 && shouldRunInDocker -eq 1 ]]; then
@@ -17,7 +26,7 @@ if [[ justInstall -eq 1 && shouldRunInDocker -eq 1 ]]; then
   justInstall=0
 fi
 
-gradleVersion="7.5.1"
+gradleVersion="7.6"
 
 if [[ justInstall -eq 0 ]]; then
 
@@ -42,7 +51,7 @@ if [[ justInstall -eq 0 ]]; then
     echo "Give the username for the Docker Hub:"
     read -r username
     echo -e "\nBuilding docker image..\n"
-    sudo docker --version || (echo -e "Docker was not found!"; exit 9)
+    sudo docker --version || handle_error "Docker was not found!" 3
     dockerImage=${username}"/urls_controller:latest"
     sudo docker build -t "${dockerImage}" .
     echo -e "\nPushing docker image.. (the account password is required, otherwise it will not be pushed, but it will continue to run)..\n"
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
index a120bb5..7d1d493 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/util/ParquetFileUtils.java
@@ -522,16 +522,16 @@ public class ParquetFileUtils {
 
                 // For each missing subdirectories, run the mkdirs-request.
                 if ( !foundAttemptsDir ) {
-                    logger.debug("The \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathAttempts + "\" was not found! Going to create it.");
+                    logger.debug("The remote parquet directory \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathAttempts + "\" does not exist! Going to create it.");
                     createHDFSDirectory(webHDFSBaseUrl + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathAttempts + mkdirsParams);
                 } else
-                    logger.info("The \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathAttempts + "\" was found.");
+                    logger.info("The remote parquet directory \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathAttempts + "\" exists.");
 
                 if ( !foundPayloadsDir ) {
-                    logger.debug("The \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathPayloads + "\" was not found! Going to create it.");
+                    logger.debug("The remote parquet directory \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathPayloads + "\" does not exist! Going to create it.");
                     createHDFSDirectory(webHDFSBaseUrl + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathPayloads + mkdirsParams);
                 } else
-                    logger.info("The \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathPayloads + "\" was found.");
+                    logger.info("The remote parquet directory \"" + parquetHDFSDirectoryPathPayloads + "\" exists.");
             }
         } catch (Exception e) {
             logger.error("", e);