diff --git a/metrics/pom.xml b/metrics/pom.xml
index bd04d4f8..6b49a59f 100644
--- a/metrics/pom.xml
+++ b/metrics/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.caliper</groupId>
       <artifactId>caliper</artifactId>
-      <version>0.5-rc1</version>
+      <version>1.0-beta-3</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.java b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.java
index 8e6ea2b2..80881dc8 100644
--- a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.java
+++ b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.java
@@ -15,15 +15,13 @@
  */
 package com.google.gson.metrics;
 
+import com.google.caliper.BeforeExperiment;
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 
-import com.google.caliper.Runner;
-import com.google.caliper.SimpleBenchmark;
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
-
 /**
  * Caliper based micro benchmarks for Gson
  *
@@ -31,17 +29,17 @@ import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
  * @author Jesse Wilson
  * @author Joel Leitch
  */
-public class BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
+public class BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark {
 
   private Gson gson;
   private String json;
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
-    Runner.main(BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.class, args);
+    NonUploadingCaliperRunner.run(BagOfPrimitivesDeserializationBenchmark.class, args);
   }
   
-  @Override
-  protected void setUp() throws Exception {
+  @BeforeExperiment
+  void setUp() throws Exception {
     this.gson = new Gson();
     BagOfPrimitives bag = new BagOfPrimitives(10L, 1, false, "foo");
     this.json = gson.toJson(bag);
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.java b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.java
index 09a5782a..57b5d630 100644
--- a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.java
+++ b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.java
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
  */
 package com.google.gson.metrics;
 
+import com.google.caliper.BeforeExperiment;
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
+import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
@@ -22,29 +26,23 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Type;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import com.google.caliper.Runner;
-import com.google.caliper.SimpleBenchmark;
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
-import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
-
 /**
  * Caliper based micro benchmarks for Gson
  *
  * @author Inderjeet Singh
  */
-public class CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
+public class CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark {
 
   private static final Type LIST_TYPE = new TypeToken<List<BagOfPrimitives>>(){}.getType();
   private Gson gson;
   private String json;
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
-    Runner.main(CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.class, args);
+    NonUploadingCaliperRunner.run(CollectionsDeserializationBenchmark.class, args);
   }
   
-  @Override
-  protected void setUp() throws Exception {
+  @BeforeExperiment
+  void setUp() throws Exception {
     this.gson = new Gson();
     List<BagOfPrimitives> bags = new ArrayList<BagOfPrimitives>();
     for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/NonUploadingCaliperRunner.java b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/NonUploadingCaliperRunner.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..80633e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/NonUploadingCaliperRunner.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.google.gson.metrics;
+
+import com.google.caliper.runner.CaliperMain;
+
+class NonUploadingCaliperRunner {
+  private static String[] concat(String first, String... others) {
+    if (others.length == 0) {
+      return new String[] { first };
+    } else {
+      String[] result = new String[others.length + 1];
+      result[0] = first;
+      System.arraycopy(others, 0, result, 1, others.length);
+      return result;
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static void run(Class<?> c, String[] args) {
+    // Disable result upload; Caliper uploads results to webapp by default, see https://github.com/google/caliper/issues/356
+    CaliperMain.main(c, concat("-Cresults.upload.options.url=", args));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmark.java b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmark.java
index a9e0f4e2..cc228e87 100644
--- a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmark.java
+++ b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmark.java
@@ -24,24 +24,27 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.MapperFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
+import com.google.caliper.BeforeExperiment;
 import com.google.caliper.Param;
-import com.google.caliper.Runner;
-import com.google.caliper.SimpleBenchmark;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
 import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 import java.io.CharArrayReader;
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
 
 /**
  * Measure Gson and Jackson parsing and binding performance.
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ import java.util.List;
  * That file contains Twitter feed data, which is representative of what
  * applications will be parsing.
  */
-public final class ParseBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
+public final class ParseBenchmark {
   @Param Document document;
   @Param Api api;
 
@@ -105,8 +108,9 @@ public final class ParseBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
   private char[] text;
   private Parser parser;
 
-  @Override protected void setUp() throws Exception {
-    text = resourceToString("/" + document.name() + ".json").toCharArray();
+  @BeforeExperiment
+  void setUp() throws Exception {
+    text = resourceToString(document.name() + ".json").toCharArray();
     parser = api.newParser();
   }
 
@@ -116,25 +120,39 @@ public final class ParseBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
     }
   }
 
-  private static String resourceToString(String path) throws Exception {
-    InputStream in = ParseBenchmark.class.getResourceAsStream(path);
-    if (in == null) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("No such file: " + path);
+  private static File getResourceFile(String path) throws Exception {
+    URL url = ParseBenchmark.class.getResource(path);
+    if (url == null) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Resource " + path + " does not exist");
     }
+    File file = new File(url.toURI());
+    if (!file.isFile()) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Resource " + path + " is not a file");
+    }
+    return file;
+  }
 
-    Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8");
-    char[] buffer = new char[8192];
-    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-    int count;
-    while ((count = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-      writer.write(buffer, 0, count);
+  private static String resourceToString(String fileName) throws Exception {
+    ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(getResourceFile("/ParseBenchmarkData.zip"));
+    try {
+      ZipEntry zipEntry = zipFile.getEntry(fileName);
+      Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(zipFile.getInputStream(zipEntry));
+      char[] buffer = new char[8192];
+      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+      int count;
+      while ((count = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
+        writer.write(buffer, 0, count);
+      }
+      reader.close();
+      return writer.toString();
+
+    } finally {
+      zipFile.close();
     }
-    reader.close();
-    return writer.toString();
   }
 
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
-    Runner.main(ParseBenchmark.class, args);
+    NonUploadingCaliperRunner.run(ParseBenchmark.class, args);
   }
 
   interface Parser {
@@ -257,7 +275,7 @@ public final class ParseBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
         .configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
         .configure(MapperFeature.AUTO_DETECT_FIELDS, true)
         .build();
-      mapper.setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"));
+      mapper.setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH));
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/SerializationBenchmark.java b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/SerializationBenchmark.java
index 9cdf085e..bf67a66b 100644
--- a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/SerializationBenchmark.java
+++ b/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/SerializationBenchmark.java
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@
  */
 package com.google.gson.metrics;
 
+import com.google.caliper.BeforeExperiment;
 import com.google.caliper.Param;
-import com.google.caliper.Runner;
-import com.google.caliper.SimpleBenchmark;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
  * @author Jesse Wilson
  * @author Joel Leitch
  */
-public class SerializationBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
+public class SerializationBenchmark {
 
   private Gson gson;
   private BagOfPrimitives bag;
@@ -36,11 +35,11 @@ public class SerializationBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark {
   private boolean pretty;
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
-    Runner.main(SerializationBenchmark.class, args);
+    NonUploadingCaliperRunner.run(SerializationBenchmark.class, args);
   }
   
-  @Override
-  protected void setUp() throws Exception {
+  @BeforeExperiment
+  void setUp() throws Exception {
     this.gson = pretty ? new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create() : new Gson();
     this.bag = new BagOfPrimitives(10L, 1, false, "foo");
   }
diff --git a/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmarkData.zip b/metrics/src/main/resources/ParseBenchmarkData.zip
similarity index 100%
rename from metrics/src/main/java/com/google/gson/metrics/ParseBenchmarkData.zip
rename to metrics/src/main/resources/ParseBenchmarkData.zip