diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0f4ef7c6..32f091ba 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 language: java
+
 sudo: false
 
+jdk:
+ - oraclejdk7
+
+cache:
+  directories:
+  - $HOME/.gradle
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 5dc386f7..ec8aa0c7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ subprojects {
 }
 
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-    gradleVersion = '2.3'
+    gradleVersion = '2.8'
 }
 
 //Task used by Heroku for staging
 task stage(dependsOn: [':json-path-web-test:clean', 'json-path-web-test:jar', 'json-path-web-test:shadowJar']) {}
-apply from: "$rootDir/gradle/binaryCompatibility.gradle"
\ No newline at end of file
+apply from: "$rootDir/gradle/binaryCompatibility.gradle"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index e8c6bf7b..d10a4602 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 c054665f..05ed8a5b 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Mon Oct 05 14:46:21 CEST 2015
+#Thu Nov 05 08:42:18 CET 2015
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.3-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.8-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 97fac783..9d82f789 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
     fi
 done
 SAVED="`pwd`"
-cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >&-
+cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >/dev/null
 APP_HOME="`pwd -P`"
-cd "$SAVED" >&-
+cd "$SAVED" >/dev/null
 
 CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar