diff --git a/admin/build.sh b/admin/build.sh
index c0585c46f..01548ad8d 100755
--- a/admin/build.sh
+++ b/admin/build.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if [[ "$TRAVIS_TAG" =~ $tagPat ]]; then
     currentJvmVer=$(java -version 2>&1 | awk -F '"' '/version/ {print $2}' | sed 's/^1\.//' | sed 's/[^0-9].*//')
     echo "Releasing $tagVer with Scala $TRAVIS_SCALA_VERSION on Java version $currentJvmVer."
 
-    publishTask="$projectPrefix/publish-signed"
+    publishTask="$projectPrefix/publishSigned"
 
     cat admin/gpg.sbt >> project/plugins.sbt
     cp admin/publish-settings.sbt .
diff --git a/project/build.properties b/project/build.properties
index 133a8f197..c0bab0494 100644
--- a/project/build.properties
+++ b/project/build.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-sbt.version=0.13.17
+sbt.version=1.2.8
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 983887349..8920d978b 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
-if (System.getProperty("java.version").startsWith("1."))
-  Seq()
-else
-  // override to version that works on Java 9,
-  // see https://github.com/scala/sbt-scala-module/issues/35
-  Seq(addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-osgi" % "0.9.3"))
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-osgi" % "0.9.5")
 
 val scalaJSVersion =
   Option(System.getenv("SCALAJS_VERSION")).filter(_.nonEmpty).getOrElse("0.6.27")
 
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-js" % "sbt-scalajs" % scalaJSVersion)
 addSbtPlugin("org.portable-scala" % "sbt-scalajs-crossproject" % "0.6.0")
-addSbtPlugin("org.scala-lang.modules" % "sbt-scala-module" % "1.0.14")
+addSbtPlugin("org.scala-lang.modules" % "sbt-scala-module" % "2.0.0")