diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 89e0d99e..aac7c9b4 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 
 # Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
 # The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
-# Default value: -Xmx10248m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-# org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m
 
 # When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
 # This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index d6e2637a..07d46eed 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 41eabe82..a613f3b2 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+#Sun Jul 16 20:14:28 SGT 2017
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.2-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0.1-all.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 4ef3a871..cccdd3d5 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=""
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD="maximum"
 
-warn ( ) {
+warn () {
     echo "$*"
 }
 
-die ( ) {
+die () {
     echo
     echo "$*"
     echo
@@ -155,13 +155,14 @@ if $cygwin ; then
 fi
 
 # Escape application args
-for s in "${@}" ; do
-    s=\"$s\"
-    APP_ARGS=$APP_ARGS" "$s
-done
+save () {
+    for i do printf %s\\n "$i" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/' \\\\/" ; done
+    echo " "
+}
+APP_ARGS=$(save "$@")
 
 # Collect all arguments for the java command, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
-eval set -- "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS" "$JAVA_OPTS" "$GRADLE_OPTS" "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
+eval set -- $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
 
 # by default we should be in the correct project dir, but when run from Finder on Mac, the cwd is wrong
 if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ] && [ "$HOME" = "$PWD" ]; then