diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 553f2b3db..963532738 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cache:
 
 before_install:
   - export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512M"
-  - export GRADLE_VERSION=2.7
+  - export GRADLE_VERSION=2.12
   - wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-${GRADLE_VERSION}-all.zip
   - unzip -q gradle-${GRADLE_VERSION}-all.zip
   - export PATH="$(pwd)/gradle-${GRADLE_VERSION}/bin:$PATH"