diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5d86611389..f95cf26aec 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <!-- https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/plugin-development/choosing-jenkins-baseline/ -->
     <jenkins.baseline>2.479</jenkins.baseline>
     <jenkins.version>${jenkins.baseline}.1</jenkins.version>
-    <jgit.version>7.0.0.202409031743-r</jgit.version>
+    <jgit.version>7.1.0.202411261347-r</jgit.version>
     <spotbugs.effort>Max</spotbugs.effort>
     <spotbugs.threshold>Low</spotbugs.threshold>
     <spotless.check.skip>false</spotless.check.skip>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/gitclient/JGitLightweightTagTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/gitclient/JGitLightweightTagTest.java
index b234bfee02..f80c35afca 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/gitclient/JGitLightweightTagTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/gitclient/JGitLightweightTagTest.java
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 import hudson.model.TaskListener;
 import hudson.plugins.git.GitObject;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -81,21 +80,17 @@ private void createFile(final String path, final String content) throws Exceptio
         }
     }
 
-    private void packRefs() throws IOException {
-        try (FileRepository repo = new FileRepository(repoRootGitDir)) {
-            org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.GC gc;
-            gc = new org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.GC(repo);
-            gc.packRefs();
+    private void packRefs() throws Exception {
+        try (org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git jgit = new org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git(new FileRepository(repoRootGitDir))) {
+            jgit.packRefs().setAll(true).call();
         }
     }
 
     // No flavor of GitClient has a tag(String) API, only tag(String,String).
     // But sometimes we want a lightweight a.k.a. non-annotated tag.
     private void lightweightTag(String tagName) throws Exception {
-        try (FileRepository repo = new FileRepository(repoRootGitDir)) {
-            // Collides with implicit org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.
-            org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git jgitAPI = org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git.wrap(repo);
-            jgitAPI.tag().setName(tagName).setAnnotated(false).call();
+        try (org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git jgit = new org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git(new FileRepository(repoRootGitDir))) {
+            jgit.tag().setName(tagName).setAnnotated(false).call();
         }
     }