diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gradle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gradle/default.nix
index f810f97ef497..f5ca69e59c84 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gradle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gradle/default.nix
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ rec {
   };
 
   gradle_latest = gradleGen rec {
-    name = "gradle-4.8.1";
+    name = "gradle-4.9";
     nativeVersion = "0.14";
 
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "http://services.gradle.org/distributions/${name}-bin.zip";
-      sha256 = "0wgdf1iv0izi957hay1xfsk5xnl6s2vx5dammcwy8say9fclscxg";
+      sha256 = "0a0dkdzmz0ynf73inii8djy2hihqd9c97fir9c0d4g8px3f6jvp6";
     };
   };