diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index c822f2293..ef6d53c05 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ init:
 
 install:
   - cinst jdk8 -params 'installdir=C:\\jdk8'
-  - cinst jdk9 -version 9.0.4.11 -params 'installdir=C:\\jdk9'
+  - cinst jdk10 -params 'installdir=C:\\jdk10'
   - SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk8
   - SET PATH=C:\jdk8\bin;%PATH%
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ install:
   - SET SBT_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=2g -Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
 test_script:
-  - sbt "-Dsbt.build.version=1.0.4" universal:packageBin
+  - sbt "-Dsbt.build.version=1.1.2" universal:packageBin
   - cd citest
   - test.bat
   - test1.bat
diff --git a/citest/test.bat b/citest/test.bat
index 7d35a6ca6..f1a372b55 100644
--- a/citest/test.bat
+++ b/citest/test.bat
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ SETLOCAL
 
 "freshly-baked\sbt\bin\sbt" about
 
-SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk9
-SET PATH=C:\jdk9\bin;%PATH%
+SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk10
+SET PATH=C:\jdk10\bin;%PATH%
 SET SBT_OPTS=-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
 "freshly-baked\sbt\bin\sbt" about
diff --git a/citest/test1.bat b/citest/test1.bat
index b02954cd9..a0bbd1169 100644
--- a/citest/test1.bat
+++ b/citest/test1.bat
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 SETLOCAL
 
-SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk9
-SET PATH=C:\jdk9\bin;%PATH%
+SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk10
+SET PATH=C:\jdk10\bin;%PATH%
 SET SBT_OPTS=-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
 "freshly-baked\sbt\bin\sbt" about 1> output.txt 2> err.txt
diff --git a/citest/test2.bat b/citest/test2.bat
index b02598217..4a7301ee9 100644
--- a/citest/test2.bat
+++ b/citest/test2.bat
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 SETLOCAL
 
-SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk9
-SET PATH=C:\jdk9\bin;%PATH%
+SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk10
+SET PATH=C:\jdk10\bin;%PATH%
 SET SBT_OPTS=-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
 "freshly-baked\sbt\bin\sbt" check
diff --git a/citest/test3/test3.bat b/citest/test3/test3.bat
index 8b3fe5a94..e70f4e38c 100644
--- a/citest/test3/test3.bat
+++ b/citest/test3/test3.bat
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 SETLOCAL
 
-SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk9
-SET PATH=C:\jdk9\bin;%PATH%
+SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk10
+SET PATH=C:\jdk10\bin;%PATH%
 SET SBT_OPTS=-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
 SET BASE_DIR=%CD%
diff --git a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
index 13087fe38..ff8507716 100644
--- a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
+++ b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
@@ -99,24 +99,25 @@ goto end
 goto :eof
 
 :process
-rem parses 1.7, 1.8, 9, etc out of java version "1.8.0_91"
-"%_JAVACMD%" -Xmx512M -version 2> "%TEMP%\out.txt"
+rem Parses x out of 1.x; for example 8 out of java version 1.8.0_xx
+rem Otherwise, parses the major version; 9 out of java version 9-ea
 set JAVA_VERSION=0
->nul findstr /c:"version \"9" "%TEMP%\out.txt"
-if /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (set JAVA_VERSION=9)
->nul findstr /c:"version \"1.8" "%TEMP%\out.txt"
-if /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (set JAVA_VERSION=1.8)
->nul findstr /c:"version \"1.7" "%TEMP%\out.txt"
-if /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (set JAVA_VERSION=1.7)
->nul findstr /c:"version \"1.6" "%TEMP%\out.txt"
-if /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (set JAVA_VERSION=1.6)
->nul findstr /c:"version \"1.5" "%TEMP%\out.txt"
-if /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (set JAVA_VERSION=1.5)
+for /f "tokens=3" %%g in ('%_JAVACMD% -Xms32M -Xmx32M -version 2^>^&1 ^| findstr /i "version"') do (
+  set JAVA_VERSION=%%g
+)
+set JAVA_VERSION=%JAVA_VERSION:"=%
+for /f "delims=.-_ tokens=1-2" %%v in ("%JAVA_VERSION%") do (
+  if /I "%%v" EQU "1" (
+    set JAVA_VERSION=%%w
+  ) else (
+    set JAVA_VERSION=%%v
+  )
+)
 exit /B 0
 
 :checkjava
-set required_version=1.6
-if /I "%JAVA_VERSION%" GEQ "%required_version%" (
+set required_version=6
+if /I %JAVA_VERSION% GEQ %required_version% (
   exit /B 0
 )
 echo.
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ echo.
 exit /B 1
 
 :copyrt
-if /I "%JAVA_VERSION%" GEQ "9" (
+if /I %JAVA_VERSION% GEQ 9 (
   set rtexport=!SBT_HOME!java9-rt-export.jar
 
   "%_JAVACMD%" %_JAVA_OPTS% %SBT_OPTS% -jar "!rtexport!" --rt-ext-dir > "%TEMP%.\rtext.txt"
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ if "%INIT_SBT_VERSION%"=="" (
   )
 )
 set PRELOAD_SBT_JAR="%UserProfile%\.sbt\preloaded\org.scala-sbt\sbt\%INIT_SBT_VERSION%\jars\sbt.jar"
-if /I "%JAVA_VERSION%" GEQ "1.8" (
+if /I %JAVA_VERSION% GEQ 8 (
   where robocopy >nul 2>nul
   if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 (
     REM echo %PRELOAD_SBT_JAR%