diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 0c4049136d..05215c9259 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -65,5 +65,5 @@ subprojects {
 apply from: 'cppSettings.gradle'
 
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-    gradleVersion = '2.14.1'
+    gradleVersion = '3.0'
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index d3b83982b9..deedc7fa5e 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 bfc24259b2..c16481e0b7 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Fri Jul 22 18:50:05 PDT 2016
+#Mon Aug 22 20:26:07 PDT 2016
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.0-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 27309d9231..9aa616c273 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -161,4 +161,9 @@ function splitJvmOpts() {
 eval splitJvmOpts $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS
 JVM_OPTS[${#JVM_OPTS[*]}]="-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME"
 
+# 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" == "$PWD" ]]; then
+  cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+fi
+
 exec "$JAVACMD" "${JVM_OPTS[@]}" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$@"
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index f6d5974e72..e95643d6a2 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ goto fail
 @rem Get command-line arguments, handling Windows variants
 
 if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto win9xME_args
-if "%@eval[2+2]" == "4" goto 4NT_args
 
 :win9xME_args
 @rem Slurp the command line arguments.
@@ -60,11 +59,6 @@ set _SKIP=2
 if "x%~1" == "x" goto execute
 
 set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%*
-goto execute
-
-:4NT_args
-@rem Get arguments from the 4NT Shell from JP Software
-set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%$
 
 :execute
 @rem Setup the command line