diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/PropertiesUtil.java b/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/PropertiesUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b434609
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/PropertiesUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.internal;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import org.gradle.api.UncheckedIOException;
+
+public final class PropertiesUtil {
+    private PropertiesUtil() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This utility class can not be instantiated");
+    }
+
+    public static Properties loadProperties(File propertyFile) {
+        try {
+            try(FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(propertyFile)) {
+                return loadProperties(inputStream);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Properties loadProperties(InputStream inputStream) {
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+        try {
+            properties.load(inputStream);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+        return properties;
+    }
+
+    public static void saveProperties(Properties properties, File propertyFile) {
+        try {
+            try (FileOutputStream propertiesFileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(propertyFile)) {
+                properties.store(propertiesFileOutputStream, null);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/tasks/DefaultAmpSourceSetConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/tasks/DefaultAmpSourceSetConfiguration.java
index e8c8e16..f17d70f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/tasks/DefaultAmpSourceSetConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/internal/tasks/DefaultAmpSourceSetConfiguration.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.internal.tasks;
 
+import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.internal.PropertiesUtil;
 import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.tasks.AmpSourceSet;
 import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.tasks.AmpSourceSetConfiguration;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@
 import org.gradle.api.provider.Property;
 import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
-import org.gradle.util.GUtil;
 
 public class DefaultAmpSourceSetConfiguration implements AmpSourceSetConfiguration {
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public AmpSourceSetConfiguration module(String moduleProperties) {
     @Override
     public AmpSourceSetConfiguration module(File moduleProperties) {
         return module(properties -> {
-            properties.putAll(GUtil.loadProperties(moduleProperties));
+            properties.putAll(PropertiesUtil.loadProperties(moduleProperties));
         });
     }
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public AmpSourceSetConfiguration fileMapping(String fileMappingProperties) {
     @Override
     public AmpSourceSetConfiguration fileMapping(File fileMappingProperties) {
         return fileMapping(properties -> {
-            properties.putAll(GUtil.loadProperties(fileMappingProperties));
+            properties.putAll(PropertiesUtil.loadProperties(fileMappingProperties));
         });
     }
 
@@ -125,4 +125,5 @@ public SourceDirectorySet getConfig() {
     public SourceDirectorySet getWeb() {
         return web;
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/AmpBasePluginTest.java b/src/test/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/AmpBasePluginTest.java
index b5a9990..ab2f5ef 100644
--- a/src/test/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/AmpBasePluginTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/eu/xenit/gradle/alfrescosdk/AmpBasePluginTest.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
+import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.internal.PropertiesUtil;
 import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.tasks.Amp;
 import eu.xenit.gradle.alfrescosdk.tasks.AmpSourceSetConfiguration;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -19,7 +20,6 @@
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.WriteProperties;
 import org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder;
-import org.gradle.util.GUtil;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@ public void autoConfigureSourceSet() throws IOException {
         Properties moduleProperties = new Properties();
         moduleProperties.setProperty("module.id", "test-amp");
         moduleProperties.setProperty("module.version", "1.0.0");
-        GUtil.saveProperties(moduleProperties, modulePropertiesFile);
+        PropertiesUtil.saveProperties(moduleProperties, modulePropertiesFile);
 
         File fileMappingPropertiesFile = ampFolder.resolve("file-mapping.properties").toFile();
         Properties fileMappingProperties = new Properties();
         fileMappingProperties.setProperty("/override", "/");
-        GUtil.saveProperties(fileMappingProperties, fileMappingPropertiesFile);
+        PropertiesUtil.saveProperties(fileMappingProperties, fileMappingPropertiesFile);
 
         DefaultProject project = getDefaultProject();
         // Java plugin is required for the jar task