diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dca36ed..9b3ace0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ branches:
   - dev
   - feature/grails5
   - feature/plugin-upgrade
+  - feature/grails6-upgrade
+
+before_install:
+  - sudo mkdir -p /data/dashboard
+  - sudo chmod o+xw /data
+  - sudo chmod o+xw /data/dashboard
+
 before_cache:
   - rm -f  $HOME/.gradle/caches/modules-2/modules-2.lock
   - rm -fr $HOME/.gradle/caches/*/plugin-resolution/
@@ -18,8 +25,14 @@ cache:
   - $HOME/.gradle/caches/
   - $HOME/.gradle/wrapper/
 
+install:
+  - 'travis_wait 30 ./gradlew clean'
+  - './gradlew assemble'
+
 after_success:
   - '[ "${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST}" = "false" ] && travis_retry ./gradlew publish'
+
+
 env:
   global:
   - JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 1e9f91b..ccf2c3e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,35 +1,21 @@
 buildscript {
-    repositories {
-        mavenLocal()
-        maven { url "https://nexus.ala.org.au/content/groups/public/" }
-        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
-    }
-    dependencies {
-        classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:$grailsVersion"
-        classpath "gradle.plugin.com.github.erdi.webdriver-binaries:webdriver-binaries-gradle-plugin:$webdriverBinariesVersion"
-        classpath "com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-gradle:3.4.6"
-        classpath 'org.grails.plugins:quartz:2.0.13'
-    }
+    version "2.6-SNAPSHOT"
+    group "au.org.ala"
+    description "Dashboard application"
 }
 
 plugins {
+    id "groovy"
+    id "org.grails.grails-web"
+    id "org.grails.grails-gsp"
+    id "application"
+    id "war"
+    id "maven-publish"
+    id "com.bertramlabs.asset-pipeline"
     id "com.gorylenko.gradle-git-properties" version "2.4.1"
 }
 
 
-version "2.5.1"
-group "au.org.ala"
-description "Dashboard application"
-
-apply plugin:"eclipse"
-apply plugin:"idea"
-apply plugin:"war"
-apply plugin:"org.grails.grails-web"
-apply plugin:"com.github.erdi.webdriver-binaries"
-apply plugin:"com.bertramlabs.asset-pipeline"
-apply plugin:"org.grails.grails-gsp"
-apply plugin:"maven-publish"
-
 publishing {
     repositories {
         maven {
@@ -50,12 +36,17 @@ publishing {
 
 bootWar {
     launchScript()
+    dependsOn(compileGroovyPages)
+}
+
+war {
+    dependsOn(compileGroovyPages)
 }
 
 repositories {
     mavenLocal()
     maven { url "https://nexus.ala.org.au/content/groups/public/" }
-    maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
+    mavenCentral()
 }
 
 configurations {
@@ -80,7 +71,7 @@ dependencies {
     console "org.grails:grails-console"
     profile "org.grails.profiles:web"
     implementation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-dateutil"
-    runtimeOnly "com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-grails:3.4.6"
+    runtimeOnly "com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-grails:4.3.0"
     testImplementation "org.grails.plugins:geb"
     testImplementation "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:$seleniumVersion"
     testImplementation "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-firefox-driver:$seleniumVersion"
@@ -94,16 +85,11 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'dk.glasius:external-config:3.1.1'
     runtimeOnly 'org.apache.ant:ant:1.7.1'    //you can also use runtime
     runtimeOnly 'org.apache.ant:ant-launcher:1.7.1'
-   // implementation 'net.sf.opencsv:opencsv:2.3'
     implementation 'org.grails.plugins:csv:1.0.ALA.3'
 
     implementation 'com.yahoo.platform.yui:yuicompressor:2.4.8'
     implementation group: 'org.jsoup', name: 'jsoup', version: '1.9.1'
-
-   // implementation 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.8'
-   implementation group: 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', name: 'http-builder', version: '0.7.2'
-
-   // implementation 'org.grails.grails-plugin-rest:2.3.0.M2'
+    implementation group: 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', name: 'http-builder', version: '0.7.2'
     implementation 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-ant:2.0.0'
 
     implementation "org.grails.plugins:ala-bootstrap3:4.4.0"
@@ -130,11 +116,6 @@ tasks.withType(Test) {
     systemProperty "webdriver.gecko.driver", System.getProperty('webdriver.gecko.driver')
 }
 
-webdriverBinaries {
-    chromedriver "$chromeDriverVersion"
-    geckodriver "$geckodriverVersion"
-}
-
 
 assets {
     minifyJs = false
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 746ffad..aff739e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-grailsVersion=5.2.1
-gormVersion=7.2.1
+grailsVersion=6.0.0
+grailsGradlePluginVersion=6.0.0
 org.gradle.daemon=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx1024M
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index ffed3a2..98debb8 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.2-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/grails-app/services/au/org/ala/dashboard/MetadataService.groovy b/grails-app/services/au/org/ala/dashboard/MetadataService.groovy
index 7841e4e..813a3e3 100644
--- a/grails-app/services/au/org/ala/dashboard/MetadataService.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/services/au/org/ala/dashboard/MetadataService.groovy
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ class MetadataService {
             log.info "looking up spatial layers"
             // look it up
             def resp = null
-            def url = "${SPATIAL_URL}/layers.json"
+            def url = "${SPATIAL_URL}/layers"
 
             def conn = new URL(url).openConnection()
             try {
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ class MetadataService {
     def bieBulkLookup(list) {
         def url = BIE_URL
         def data = webService.doPost(url,
-                "/species/guids/bulklookup.json", "", (list as JSON).toString())
+                "/species/guids/bulklookup", "", (list as JSON).toString())
         //println "returned from doPost ${data.resp}"
         def results = [:]
         if (!data.error) {
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index e8b71dc..7c0a8d9 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
-//include ':ala-bootstrap3'
-//project(':ala-bootstrap3').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../ala-bootstrap3')
+pluginManagement {
+    repositories {
+        mavenLocal()
+        maven { url "https://nexus.ala.org.au/content/groups/public/" }
+        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
+
+    plugins {
+        id "org.grails.grails-gradle-plugin" version "6.0.0"
+        id "org.grails.grails-web" version "6.0.0"
+        id "org.grails.grails-gsp" version "6.0.0"
+        id "com.bertramlabs.asset-pipeline" version "4.3.0"
+        id "org.grails.grails-plugin" version "2.0.13"
+
+    }
+}
+
+
 rootProject.name='dashboard'
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/au/org/ala/dashboard/Constants.groovy b/src/main/groovy/au/org/ala/dashboard/Constants.groovy
index 7ee484b..7e93b19 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/au/org/ala/dashboard/Constants.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/au/org/ala/dashboard/Constants.groovy
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ class Constants {
 
     class WebServices {
 
-        final static String PARTIAL_URL_STATE_TERRITORY_FACETED_RESULTS = "/occurrences/search.json?pageSize=0&q=*:*&facets=state&flimit=200"
+        final static String PARTIAL_URL_STATE_TERRITORY_FACETED_RESULTS = "/occurrences/search?pageSize=0&q=*:*&facets=state&flimit=200"
 
-        final static String PARTIAL_URL_RECORDS_BY_LIFE_FORM = "/occurrences/search.json?pageSize=0&q=*:*&facets=species_group&flimit=200"
+        final static String PARTIAL_URL_RECORDS_BY_LIFE_FORM = "/occurrences/search?pageSize=0&q=*:*&facets=species_group&flimit=200"
 
         final static String PARTIAL_URL_DATE_STATS_EARLIEST_RECORD = "/occurrences/search?q=!assertions:invalidCollectionDate&pageSize=1&sort=occurrence_date&facet=off"