diff --git a/examples/local-testing-project/gradle.properties b/examples/local-testing-project/gradle.properties
index 24ba20cf9..682b6f783 100644
--- a/examples/local-testing-project/gradle.properties
+++ b/examples/local-testing-project/gradle.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Set this to the version you used when running
 # "gradle -Pversion=(something) publishToMavenLocal" on your local ml-gradle repo
-mlGradleVersion=3.3.0
+mlGradleVersion=3.4-beta1
 
 mlHost=localhost
 mlAppName=example
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index fb068cfa7..28dddb8de 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 group=com.marklogic
-version=3.3.1
-mlAppDeployerDependency=com.marklogic:ml-app-deployer:3.3.1
+version=3.4-beta1
+mlAppDeployerDependency=com.marklogic:ml-app-deployer:3.4-beta1
 mlcpUtilDependency=com.marklogic:mlcp-util:0.3.0
 
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/MarkLogicPlugin.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/MarkLogicPlugin.groovy
index 1bc46d165..365c482c1 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/MarkLogicPlugin.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/MarkLogicPlugin.groovy
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ class MarkLogicPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 		project.task("mlReindexContentDatabase", type: ReindexContentDatabaseTask, group: dbGroup, description: "Reindex the database named by mlAppConfig.contentDatabaseName")
 		project.task("mlReindexDatabase", type: ReindexDatabaseTask, group: dbGroup, description: "Reindex the database named by the project property dbName; e.g. gradle mlReindexDatabase -PdbName=my-database")
 		project.task("mlSetContentUpdatesAllowed", type: SetContentUpdatesAllowedTask, group: dbGroup, description: "Sets updated-allowed on each primary forest for the content database; must set the mode via e.g. -Pmode=flash-backup")
+		project.task("mlUpdateIndexes", type: UpdateIndexesTask, group: dbGroup, description: "Update every database by sending a payload that only contains properties related to how data is indexed")
 
 		String dmGroup = "ml-Gradle Data Movement"
 		String dmMessage = "Run with -PjobProperties (no value needed) for more information."
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/databases/UpdateIndexesTask.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/databases/UpdateIndexesTask.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95131e673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/databases/UpdateIndexesTask.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package com.marklogic.gradle.task.databases
+
+import com.marklogic.gradle.task.MarkLogicTask
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
+
+class UpdateIndexesTask extends MarkLogicTask {
+
+	@TaskAction
+	void updateIndexes() {
+		getAppConfig().setIncludeProperties(
+			"database-name",
+			"stemmed-searches",
+			"word-searches",
+			"word-positions",
+			"fast-phrase-searches",
+			"fast-reverse-searches",
+			"triple-index",
+			"triple-positions",
+			"fast-case-sensitive-searches",
+			"fast-diacritic-sensitive-searches",
+			"fast-element-word-searches",
+			"element-word-positions",
+			"fast-element-phrase-searches",
+			"element-value-positions",
+			"attribute-value-positions",
+			"field-value-searches",
+			"field-value-positions",
+			"three-character-searches",
+			"three-character-word-positions",
+			"fast-element-character-searches",
+			"trailing-wildcard-searches",
+			"trailing-wildcard-word-positions",
+			"fast-element-trailing-wildcard-searches",
+			"word-lexicon",
+			"word-lexicons",
+			"two-character-searches",
+			"one-character-searches",
+			"uri-lexicon",
+			"collection-lexicon",
+			"element-word-query-through",
+			"element-word-query-throughs",
+			"phrase-through",
+			"phrase-throughs",
+			"phrase-around",
+			"phrase-arounds",
+			"range-element-index",
+			"range-element-indexes",
+			"range-element-attribute-index",
+			"range-element-attribute-indexes",
+			"range-path-index",
+			"range-path-indexes",
+			"range-field-index",
+			"range-field-indexes",
+			"field",
+			"fields",
+			"geospatial-element-index",
+			"geospatial-element-indexes",
+			"geospatial-element-child-index",
+			"geospatial-element-child-indexes",
+			"geospatial-element-pair-index",
+			"geospatial-element-pair-indexes",
+			"geospatial-element-attribute-pair-index",
+			"geospatial-element-attribute-pair-indexes",
+			"geospatial-path-index",
+			"geospatial-path-indexes",
+			"geospatial-region-path-index",
+			"geospatial-region-path-indexes"
+		)
+
+		deployWithCommandListProperty("mlDatabaseCommands")
+	}
+}