diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1394910c9..c858bf397 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1591,12 +1591,12 @@ rocksdbjavastaticrelease: rocksdbjavastatic
 rocksdbjavastaticreleasedocker: rocksdbjavastatic
 	DOCKER_LINUX_X64_CONTAINER=`docker ps -aqf name=rocksdb_linux_x64-be`; \
 	if [ -z "$$DOCKER_LINUX_X64_CONTAINER" ]; then \
-		docker container create --attach stdin --attach stdout --attach stderr --volume `pwd`:/rocksdb-host --name rocksdb_linux_x64-be evolvedbinary/rocksjava:centos5_x64-be /rocksdb-host/java/crossbuild/docker-build-linux-centos.sh; \
+		docker container create --attach stdin --attach stdout --attach stderr --volume `pwd`:/rocksdb-host --name rocksdb_linux_x64-be evolvedbinary/rocksjava:centos6_x64-be /rocksdb-host/java/crossbuild/docker-build-linux-centos.sh; \
 	fi
 	docker start -a rocksdb_linux_x64-be
 	DOCKER_LINUX_X86_CONTAINER=`docker ps -aqf name=rocksdb_linux_x86-be`; \
 	if [ -z "$$DOCKER_LINUX_X86_CONTAINER" ]; then \
-		docker container create --attach stdin --attach stdout --attach stderr --volume `pwd`:/rocksdb-host --name rocksdb_linux_x86-be evolvedbinary/rocksjava:centos5_x86-be /rocksdb-host/java/crossbuild/docker-build-linux-centos.sh; \
+		docker container create --attach stdin --attach stdout --attach stderr --volume `pwd`:/rocksdb-host --name rocksdb_linux_x86-be evolvedbinary/rocksjava:centos6_x86-be /rocksdb-host/java/crossbuild/docker-build-linux-centos.sh; \
 	fi
 	docker start -a rocksdb_linux_x86-be
 	cd java;jar -cf target/$(ROCKSDB_JAR_ALL) HISTORY*.md
diff --git a/java/crossbuild/Vagrantfile b/java/crossbuild/Vagrantfile
index 65bb8f447..4a3217748 100644
--- a/java/crossbuild/Vagrantfile
+++ b/java/crossbuild/Vagrantfile
@@ -7,16 +7,17 @@ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 
   config.vm.define "linux32" do |linux32|
-    linux32.vm.box = "hansode/centos-5.11-i386"
+    linux32.vm.box = "hansode/centos-6.7-i386"
   end
 
   config.vm.define "linux64" do |linux64|
-    linux64.vm.box = "hansode/centos-5.11-x86_64"
+    linux64.vm.box = "hansode/centos-6.7-x86_64"
   end
 
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
     v.memory = 2048
     v.cpus = 4
+    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype1", "virtio" ]
   end
 
   config.vm.provision :shell, path: "build-linux-centos.sh"
diff --git a/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh b/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
index fd8119bdc..2832eed8b 100755
--- a/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
+++ b/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
@@ -2,34 +2,24 @@
 
 set -e
 
-# CentOS 5 is now end of life so we need to switch its repos over to the vault
-sed -i -e '/^mirrorlist=/d' -e 's%^#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/%baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/%g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
-sed -i -e '/^mirrorlist=/d' -e 's%^#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/%baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/%g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-fasttrack.repo
-if [ -f /etc/yum.repos.d/libselinux.repo ]; then
-	sed -i -e '/^mirrorlist=/d' -e 's%^#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/%baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/%g' /etc/yum.repos.d/libselinux.repo
-fi
+# remove fixed relesever variable present in the hanscode boxes
+sudo rm -f /etc/yum/vars/releasever
 
 # enable EPEL
 sudo yum -y install epel-release
 
 # install all required packages for rocksdb that are available through yum
-ARCH=$(uname -i)
-sudo yum -y install openssl java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.$ARCH zlib-devel bzip2-devel lz4-devel snappy-devel
+sudo yum -y install openssl java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel lz4-devel snappy-devel libzstd-devel
 
-# install gcc/g++ 4.8.2 via CERN (http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/devtoolset/)
-sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/slc5-devtoolset.repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/devtoolset/slc5-devtoolset.repo
-sudo wget -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/51/i386/RPM-GPG-KEYs/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
-sudo yum -y install devtoolset-2
+# install gcc/g++ 4.8.2 from tru/devtools-2
+sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo https://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo
+sudo yum -y install devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-gcc-c++
 
 # install gflags
 wget https://github.com/gflags/gflags/archive/v2.0.tar.gz -O gflags-2.0.tar.gz
 tar xvfz gflags-2.0.tar.gz; cd gflags-2.0; scl enable devtoolset-2 ./configure; scl enable devtoolset-2 make; sudo make install
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
 
-# install zstandard
-wget https://github.com/facebook/zstd/archive/v1.1.3.tar.gz -O zstd-1.1.3.tar.gz
-tar zxvf zstd-1.1.3.tar.gz; cd zstd-1.1.3; scl enable devtoolset-2 make; sudo make install
-
 # set java home so we can build rocksdb jars
 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0