diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9f5b41bc872f9c2f1ad461dfd97f4c49ac1438c5..0684e137992e9c557159c5d5cd831404aecac49e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Upcoming version:
 -----------------
+  - updateing gradle to version 2.7 (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - updateing readme (tag location) (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - #2 fixed (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - added possibility to export spatialite database from postgis (Nikolaus Krismer)
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index fd7e590e5154e82211909581e71018372134fb27..e8c6bf7bb47dff6b81c2cf7a349eb7e912c9fbe2 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 bb6b26a00c121c3e221a2b61f09915815d488b10..25e6c8a2935228db37482b2b92ea7617b8b33448 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Thu Aug 13 11:32:37 CEST 2015
+#Tue Sep 15 13:21:57 CEST 2015
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.6-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.7-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 91a7e269e19dfc62e27137a0b57ef3e430cee4fd..97fac783e1c8d8241ec7394569867ec3aca58b39 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ case "`uname`" in
     ;;
 esac
 
-# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched.
-if $cygwin ; then
-    [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JAVA_HOME"`
-fi
-
 # Attempt to set APP_HOME
 # Resolve links: $0 may be a link
 PRG="$0"
@@ -114,6 +109,7 @@ fi
 if $cygwin ; then
     APP_HOME=`cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME"`
     CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH"`
+    JAVACMD=`cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD"`
 
     # We build the pattern for arguments to be converted via cygpath
     ROOTDIRSRAW=`find -L / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null`