diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index cecc6eda..6308f0e2 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Configure your build environment: http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html
 org.gradle.caching=true
-# NOTE: lowered from -Xmx6g for the 2GB build server; heavy release builds run on GitHub Actions
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx768m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-org.gradle.parallel=false
-org.gradle.workers.max=1
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx6g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.workers.max=4