diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 92bcc9aca..5d0aab69c 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nebula.netflixoss' version '3.6.4'
-    id 'nebula.provided-base' version '3.0.3'
+    id 'nebula.netflixoss' version '5.0.0'
 }
 
 ext.githubProjectName = 'Priam'
@@ -8,7 +7,6 @@ ext.githubProjectName = 'Priam'
 allprojects {
     apply plugin: 'nebula.netflixoss'
     apply plugin: 'java'
-    apply plugin: 'nebula.provided-base'
 
     group = 'com.netflix.priam'
 
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ allprojects {
       }
       compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-storage:v1-rev100-1.22.0'
       compile 'com.google.http-client:google-http-client-jackson2:1.22.0'
-      provided 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0'
+      compileOnly 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0'
       testCompile 'org.jmockit:jmockit:1.31'
       testCompile "org.spockframework:spock-core:1.1-groovy-2.4"
       testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 0e0f70724..8386843a6 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-bin.zip