diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 3b04ed08294..7cefbf4c7d0 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ buildscript {
 		maven { url "http://repo.springsource.org/plugins-release" }
 	}
 	dependencies {
-		classpath("org.springframework.build.gradle:propdeps-plugin:0.0.4")
+		classpath("org.springframework.build.gradle:propdeps-plugin:0.0.5")
 		classpath("org.asciidoctor:asciidoctor-gradle-plugin:0.7.0")
 	}
 }
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ configure(rootProject) {
 
 	task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
 		description = "Generates gradlew[.bat] scripts"
-		gradleVersion = "1.6"
+		gradleVersion = "1.8"
 
 		doLast() {
 			def gradleOpts = "-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m -Xmx1024m"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 42d9b0e9c58..a7634b071cb 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 7f7475155b3..e60e1fda7a4 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Mon May 13 17:38:05 CDT 2013
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+#Tue Nov 19 16:13:28 PST 2013
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 994a4838694..db7d7d153b2 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 @rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-set GRADLE_OPTS=-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxHeapSize=256m %GRADLE_OPTS%
+set GRADLE_OPTS=-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxHeapSize=256m %GRADLE_OPTS%
 set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0