diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 984dfc4..ff9af8b 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ group :development do
   gem "json", '= 2.5.1',                         require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 3.0.0', '< 3.0.5']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
   gem "json", '= 2.6.1',                         require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 3.1.0', '< 3.1.3']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
   gem "json", '= 2.6.3',                         require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 3.2.0', '< 4.0.0']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
+  gem "racc", '~> 1.4.0',                        require: false if Gem::Requirement.create(['>= 2.7.0', '< 3.0.0']).satisfied_by?(Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup))
   gem "voxpupuli-puppet-lint-plugins", '~> 5.0', require: false
   gem "facterdb", '~> 1.18',                     require: false
   gem "metadata-json-lint", '~> 3.0',            require: false
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ group :development do
   gem "rubocop", '= 1.48.1',                     require: false
   gem "rubocop-performance", '= 1.16.0',         require: false
   gem "rubocop-rspec", '= 2.19.0',               require: false
+  gem "puppet-strings", '~> 3.0',                require: false
   gem "rb-readline", '= 0.5.5',                  require: false, platforms: [:mswin, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
 end
 group :system_tests do
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 53152e2..74415a9 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 require 'bundler'
-require 'puppet_litmus/rake_tasks' if Bundler.rubygems.find_name('puppet_litmus').any?
+require 'puppet_litmus/rake_tasks' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'puppet_litmus'
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
 require 'puppet-syntax/tasks/puppet-syntax'
-require 'github_changelog_generator/task' if Bundler.rubygems.find_name('github_changelog_generator').any?
-require 'puppet-strings/tasks' if Bundler.rubygems.find_name('puppet-strings').any?
+require 'github_changelog_generator/task' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'github_changelog_generator'
+require 'puppet-strings/tasks' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'puppet-strings'
 
 def changelog_user
   return unless Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ end
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_relative')
 
 
-if Bundler.rubygems.find_name('github_changelog_generator').any?
+if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'github_changelog_generator'
   GitHubChangelogGenerator::RakeTask.new :changelog do |config|
     raise "Set CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable eg 'export CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN=valid_token_here'" if Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog" and ENV['CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN'].nil?
     config.user = "#{changelog_user}"
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index e9684b7..96810e6 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
       "version_requirement": ">= 0.0.1 < 6.0.0"
     }
   ],
-  "pdk-version": "2.7.1",
+  "pdk-version": "3.0.0",
   "template-url": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk-templates#main",
-  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g9675180"
+  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g06d22d7"
 }