diff --git a/etc/scripts/gradle-upgrade.sh b/etc/scripts/gradle-upgrade.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f94b54e02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/scripts/gradle-upgrade.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=4.9 --distribution-type=bin
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 29f1c9dcb..6f7faf307 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 0a4bfd2bc..695690478 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Tue Jul 04 16:23:04 AEST 2017
+#Fri Aug 10 14:04:47 AEST 2018
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.9-bin.zip