diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 490ffdff8..0be0c2913 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ find_package(catkin REQUIRED
     tf2_msgs
 )
 
-catkin_rosjava_setup(publish installApp)
+catkin_rosjava_setup(publish installDist)
 
 # make sure messages get built first if genjava is enabled
 add_dependencies(gradle-${PROJECT_NAME} ${catkin_EXPORTED_TARGETS})
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 721d0e8b8..ca137ba62 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
-  gradleVersion = '2.14.1'
+  gradleVersion = '3.5.1'
 }
 
 buildscript {
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ subprojects {
   }
 }
 
-defaultTasks 'publish', 'installApp'
+defaultTasks 'publish', 'installDist'
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/getting_started.rst b/docs/src/main/sphinx/getting_started.rst
index e291265cb..24d866a08 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/getting_started.rst
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ processes:
 
   # source your devel/setup.bash
   roscd rosjava_core/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub
-  ../gradlew installApp
+  ../gradlew installDist
   roscore &
   ./build/install/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/bin/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_pubsub.Talker &
   ./build/install/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/bin/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_pubsub.Listener
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Building and executing these nodes works in the same manner as described above:
 
   # source your devel/setup.bash
   roscd rosjava_core/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub
-  ../gradlew installApp
+  ../gradlew installDist
   roscore &
   ./build/install/rosjava_tutorial_services/bin/rosjava_tutorial_services org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_services.Server &
   ./build/install/rosjava_tutorial_services/bin/rosjava_tutorial_services org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_services.Client
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 3c7abdf12..72eace8d2 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 eda4ff5d8..7004efb67 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Wed Feb 11 20:39:17 KST 2015
+#Fri Jan 26 13:47:21 ART 2018
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.5.1-bin.zip
diff --git a/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/build.gradle b/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/build.gradle
index 2cc3b63f5..11c866cf5 100644
--- a/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/build.gradle
+++ b/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/build.gradle
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ dependencies {
   compile project(':rosjava')
 }
 
-defaultTasks 'publish', 'installApp'
+defaultTasks 'publish', 'installDist'