diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 346cf73ac..e2b269c42 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ if (project.hasProperty("myBintrayUser")) {
       licenses = ['Apache-2.0']
       vcsUrl = 'https://github.com/rjrudin/' + project.name + '.git'
       version {
-        name = "2.2.0"
+        name = project.version
         released = new Date()
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/client/PrepareRestApiDependenciesTask.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/client/PrepareRestApiDependenciesTask.groovy
index 1633500a5..9794341c3 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/client/PrepareRestApiDependenciesTask.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/client/PrepareRestApiDependenciesTask.groovy
@@ -1,51 +1,59 @@
 package com.marklogic.gradle.task.client
 
+import com.marklogic.gradle.task.MarkLogicTask
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.Configuration
 import org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultAntBuilder
+import org.gradle.api.internal.project.ant.AntLoggingAdapter
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
 
-import com.marklogic.gradle.task.MarkLogicTask
-
 /**
  * Purpose of this task is to unzip each restApi dependency to the build directory and then register the path of each
- * unzipped directory in AppConfig.modulePaths. 
+ * unzipped directory in AppConfig.modulePaths.
  */
 class PrepareRestApiDependenciesTask extends MarkLogicTask {
 
-    @TaskAction
-    void prepareRestApiDependencies() {
-        String configurationName = "mlRestApi"
-        if (getProject().configurations.find {it.name == configurationName}) {
-            Configuration config = getProject().getConfigurations().getAt(configurationName)
-            if (config.files) {
-                println "Found " + configurationName + " configuration, will unzip all of its dependencies to build/mlRestApi"
-
-                def buildDir = new File("build/mlRestApi")
-                buildDir.delete()
-                buildDir.mkdirs()
-
-                // Constructing a DefaultAntBuilder seems to avoid Xerces-related classpath issues
-                def ant = new DefaultAntBuilder(getProject())
-                for (f in config.files) {
-                    println "Unzipping file: " + f.getAbsolutePath()
-                    ant.unzip(src: f, dest: buildDir, overwrite: "true")
-                }
-
-                List<String> modulePaths = getAppConfig().modulePaths
-                List<String> newModulePaths = new ArrayList<String>()
-
-                for (dir in buildDir.listFiles()) {
-                    if (dir.isDirectory()) {
-                        newModulePaths.add(new File(dir, "ml-modules").getAbsolutePath())
-                    }
-                }
-
-                // The config paths of the dependencies should be before the original config paths
-                newModulePaths.addAll(modulePaths)
-                getAppConfig().setModulePaths(newModulePaths)
-
-                println "Finished unzipping mlRestApi dependencies; will now include modules at " + getAppConfig().modulePaths + "\n"
-            }
-        }
-    }
+	@TaskAction
+	void prepareRestApiDependencies() {
+		String configurationName = "mlRestApi"
+		if (getProject().configurations.find { it.name == configurationName }) {
+			Configuration config = getProject().getConfigurations().getAt(configurationName)
+			if (config.files) {
+				println "Found " + configurationName + " configuration, will unzip all of its dependencies to build/mlRestApi"
+
+				def buildDir = new File("build/mlRestApi")
+				buildDir.delete()
+				buildDir.mkdirs()
+
+				// Constructing a DefaultAntBuilder seems to avoid Xerces-related classpath issues
+				// The DefaultAntBuilder constructor changed between Gradle 2.13 and 2.14, and we want
+				// to support both, so we try the 2.14 approach first and then 2.13
+				def ant = null
+				try {
+					ant = new DefaultAntBuilder(getProject(), new AntLoggingAdapter())
+				} catch (Exception ex) {
+					ant = new DefaultAntBuilder(getProject())
+				}
+
+				for (f in config.files) {
+					println "Unzipping file: " + f.getAbsolutePath()
+					ant.unzip(src: f, dest: buildDir, overwrite: "true")
+				}
+
+				List<String> modulePaths = getAppConfig().modulePaths
+				List<String> newModulePaths = new ArrayList<String>()
+
+				for (dir in buildDir.listFiles()) {
+					if (dir.isDirectory()) {
+						newModulePaths.add(new File(dir, "ml-modules").getAbsolutePath())
+					}
+				}
+
+				// The config paths of the dependencies should be before the original config paths
+				newModulePaths.addAll(modulePaths)
+				getAppConfig().setModulePaths(newModulePaths)
+
+				println "Finished unzipping mlRestApi dependencies; will now include modules at " + getAppConfig().modulePaths + "\n"
+			}
+		}
+	}
 }