diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 3b92074e..f1baac39 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           swap-size-gb: 10
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
-        uses: github/codeql-action/init@8214744c546c1e5c8f03dde8fab3a7353211988d # v3.26.7
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@294a9d92911152fe08befb9ec03e240add280cb3 # v3.26.8
         with:
           languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
       - name: Set up JDK 17
@@ -53,4 +53,4 @@ jobs:
           echo "org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError" > "$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties"
           ./gradlew assembleDebug
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@8214744c546c1e5c8f03dde8fab3a7353211988d # v3.26.7
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@294a9d92911152fe08befb9ec03e240add280cb3 # v3.26.8
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
index fa125392..e5e6986d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ jobs:
 
       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@8214744c546c1e5c8f03dde8fab3a7353211988d # v3.26.7
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@294a9d92911152fe08befb9ec03e240add280cb3 # v3.26.8
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index bfae8103..41501832 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ GEM
     dotenv (2.8.1)
     emoji_regex (3.2.3)
     excon (0.111.0)
-    faraday (1.10.3)
+    faraday (1.10.4)
       faraday-em_http (~> 1.0)
       faraday-em_synchrony (~> 1.0)
       faraday-excon (~> 1.1)
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/it/niedermann/owncloud/notes/edit/SearchableBaseNoteFragment.java b/app/src/main/java/it/niedermann/owncloud/notes/edit/SearchableBaseNoteFragment.java
index c1da9942..503fbc9d 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/it/niedermann/owncloud/notes/edit/SearchableBaseNoteFragment.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/it/niedermann/owncloud/notes/edit/SearchableBaseNoteFragment.java
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ public abstract class SearchableBaseNoteFragment extends BaseNoteFragment {
     private SearchView searchView;
     private String searchQuery = null;
     private static final int delay = 50; // If the search string does not change after $delay ms, then the search task starts.
+    private static final int shortStringDelay = 200; // A longer delay for short search strings.
+    private static final int shortStringSize = 3; // The maximum length of a short search string.
     private boolean directEditRemotelyAvailable = false; // avoid using this directly, instead use: isDirectEditEnabled()
 
     @ColorInt
@@ -231,8 +233,8 @@ public abstract class SearchableBaseNoteFragment extends BaseNoteFragment {
                     handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);
                 }
                 delayQueryTask = new DelayQueryRunnable(newText);
-                // If there is only one char in the search pattern, we should start the search immediately.
-                handler.postDelayed(delayQueryTask, newText.length() > 1 ? delay : 0);
+                // If there are few chars in the search pattern, we should start the search later.
+                handler.postDelayed(delayQueryTask, newText.length() > shortStringSize ? delay : shortStringDelay);
             }
 
             class DelayQueryRunnable implements Runnable {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 0aaefbca..df97d72b 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10.2-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME