diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 9cca947eea..2e9fa970a0 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ buildscript {
 }
 
 ext {
-    expectedGradleVersion = '1.9'
+    expectedGradleVersion = '2.2'
     hibernateTargetVersion = '5.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
     javaLanguageLevel = '1.6'
 
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ subprojects { subProject ->
 				}
 			}
 			downloadSources = true
-			scopes.COMPILE.plus += configurations.provided
+			scopes.COMPILE.plus += [configurations.provided]
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index c0433caacd..7d4ae98479 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.9-all.zip
+distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2-all.zip