diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 55cea8f240e..01e362cbab8 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ project("spring-context") {
 		optional("org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:${aspectjVersion}")
 		optional("org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:1.8.9")
 		optional("org.beanshell:bsh:2.0b4")
-		optional("org.jruby:jruby:1.7.10")
+		optional("org.jruby:jruby:1.7.12")
 		testCompile("javax.inject:javax.inject-tck:1")
 		testCompile("commons-dbcp:commons-dbcp:1.3")
 		testCompile("org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${slf4jVersion}")
@@ -382,14 +382,24 @@ project("spring-oxm") {
 	dependencies {
 		compile(project(":spring-beans"))
 		compile(project(":spring-core"))
-		optional("org.codehaus.castor:castor-xml:1.3.2")
-		optional("org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans:2.6.0")
-		optional("com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:1.4.7")
+		optional("org.codehaus.castor:castor-xml:1.3.3")  {
+			exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
+			exclude group: "org.springframework", module: "spring-context"
+		}
+		optional("org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans:2.6.0") {
+			exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
+		}
+		optional("com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:1.4.7") {
+			exclude group: 'xpp3', module: 'xpp3_min'
+			exclude group: 'xmlpull', module: 'xmlpull'
+		}
 		optional("org.jibx:jibx-run:1.2.5")
 		testCompile(project(":spring-context"))
 		testCompile("xmlunit:xmlunit:1.3")
 		testCompile("xmlpull:xmlpull:1.1.3.4a")
-		testCompile("org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:1.0.1")
+		testCompile("org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:1.0.1") {
+			exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
+		}
 		testCompile(files(genCastor.classesDir).builtBy(genCastor))
 		testCompile(files(genJaxb.classesDir).builtBy(genJaxb))
 		testCompile(files(genXmlbeans.classesDir).builtBy(genXmlbeans))
@@ -426,7 +436,7 @@ project("spring-jdbc") {
 		optional("org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-jta_1.1_spec:1.1")
 		optional("c3p0:c3p0:0.9.1.2")
 		optional("hsqldb:hsqldb:${hsqldbVersion}")
-		optional("com.h2database:h2:1.0.71")
+		optional("com.h2database:h2:1.0.79")
 		optional("org.apache.derby:derby:10.5.3.0_1")
 		optional("org.apache.derby:derbyclient:10.5.3.0_1")
 	}
@@ -508,8 +518,7 @@ project("spring-orm") {
 	description = "Spring Object/Relational Mapping"
 
 	compileTestJava {
-		// necessary to avoid java.lang.VerifyError on toplink compilation
-		// TODO: remove this block when we remove toplink
+		// necessary to avoid java.lang.VerifyError on TopLink compilation
 		sourceCompatibility=1.6
 		targetCompatibility=1.6
 	}
@@ -867,7 +876,7 @@ configure(rootProject) {
 		testCompile("javax.inject:javax.inject:1")
 		testCompile("javax.resource:connector-api:1.5")
 		testCompile("org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:${aspectjVersion}")
-		testCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.2.11.Final")
+		testCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.2.12.Final")
 		testCompile("hsqldb:hsqldb:${hsqldbVersion}")
 	}
 
@@ -1038,7 +1047,7 @@ configure(rootProject) {
 
 	task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
 		description = "Generates gradlew[.bat] scripts"
-		gradleVersion = "1.11"
+		gradleVersion = "1.12"
 
 		doLast() {
 			def gradleOpts = "-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -Xmx1024m"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 3c7abdf1279..0087cd3b186 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 3a182c4f827..7dab6dc93c7 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Thu Feb 13 00:23:41 CET 2014
+#Wed Apr 30 13:06:57 CEST 2014
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.11-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.12-bin.zip