diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 95f318fcdf..f6364fda4e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ allprojects {
 }
 
 ext {
-    expectedGradleVersion = '2.4'
+    expectedGradleVersion = '2.7'
     hibernateTargetVersion = '5.0.3-SNAPSHOT'
 
     osgiExportVersion = hibernateTargetVersion.replaceAll( '-SNAPSHOT', '.SNAPSHOT' )
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 2322723c7e..b5166dad4d 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 45c558c7d3..f0a91df22d 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Fri May 29 16:01:59 CDT 2015
+#Wed Sep 30 15:54:51 CDT 2015
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.4-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.7-all.zip