diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
index aa16b9c..65b466b 100755
--- a/bin/compile
+++ b/bin/compile
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ cleanup() {
 
 # Virtualenv wrapper.
 function virtualenv (){
-  python "$ROOT_DIR/vendor/virtualenv-1.7.2/virtualenv.py" "$@"
+  python "$ROOT_DIR/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/virtualenv.py" "$@"
 }
 
 # Buildpack Steps.
diff --git a/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/rebuild-script.py b/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/rebuild-script.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..44fb129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/rebuild-script.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Helper script to rebuild virtualenv.py from virtualenv_support
+"""
+
+import re
+import os
+import sys
+
+here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+script = os.path.join(here, '..', 'virtualenv.py')
+
+file_regex = re.compile(
+    r'##file (.*?)\n([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\s*=\s*convert\("""(.*?)"""\)',
+    re.S)
+file_template = '##file %(filename)s\n%(varname)s = convert("""\n%(data)s""")'
+
+def rebuild():
+    f = open(script, 'rb')
+    content = f.read()
+    f.close()
+    parts = []
+    last_pos = 0
+    match = None
+    for match in file_regex.finditer(content):
+        parts.append(content[last_pos:match.start()])
+        last_pos = match.end()
+        filename = match.group(1)
+        varname = match.group(2)
+        data = match.group(3)
+        print('Found reference to file %s' % filename)
+        pathname = os.path.join(here, '..', 'virtualenv_embedded', filename)
+        f = open(pathname, 'rb')
+        c = f.read()
+        f.close()
+        new_data = c.encode('zlib').encode('base64')
+        if new_data == data:
+            print('  Reference up to date (%s bytes)' % len(c))
+            parts.append(match.group(0))
+            continue
+        print('  Content changed (%s bytes -> %s bytes)' % (
+            zipped_len(data), len(c)))
+        new_match = file_template % dict(
+            filename=filename,
+            varname=varname,
+            data=new_data)
+        parts.append(new_match)
+    parts.append(content[last_pos:])
+    new_content = ''.join(parts)
+    if new_content != content:
+        sys.stdout.write('Content updated; overwriting... ')
+        f = open(script, 'wb')
+        f.write(new_content)
+        f.close()
+        print('done.')
+    else:
+        print('No changes in content')
+    if match is None:
+        print('No variables were matched/found')
+
+def zipped_len(data):
+    if not data:
+        return 'no data'
+    try:
+        return len(data.decode('base64').decode('zlib'))
+    except:
+        return 'unknown'
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    rebuild()
+    
diff --git a/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/refresh-support-files.py b/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/refresh-support-files.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..bad9419
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/virtualenv-1.8.4/bin/refresh-support-files.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Refresh any files in ../virtualenv_support/ that come from elsewhere
+"""
+
+import os
+try:
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib2 import urlopen
+import sys
+
+here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+support_location = os.path.join(here, '..', 'virtualenv_support')
+embedded_location = os.path.join(here, '..', 'virtualenv_embedded')
+
+embedded_files = [
+    ('http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py', 'ez_setup.py'),
+    ('http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py', 'distribute_setup.py'),
+]
+
+support_files = [
+    ('http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg', 'setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg'),
+    ('http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg', 'setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg'),
+    ('http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.31.tar.gz', 'distribute-0.6.31.tar.gz'),
+    ('http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.2.1.tar.gz', 'pip-1.2.1.tar.gz'),
+]
+
+
+def refresh_files(files, location):
+    for url, filename in files:
+        sys.stdout.write('fetching %s ... ' % url)
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        f = urlopen(url)
+        content = f.read()
+        f.close()
+        print('done.')
+        filename = os.path.join(location, filename)
+        if os.path.exists(filename):
+            f = open(filename, 'rb')
+            cur_content = f.read()
+            f.close()
+        else:
+            cur_content = ''
+        if cur_content == content:
+            print('  %s up-to-date' % filename)
+        else:
+            print('  overwriting %s' % filename)
+            f = open(filename, 'wb')
+            f.write(content)
+            f.close()
+
+
+def main():
+    refresh_files(embedded_files, embedded_location)
+    refresh_files(support_files, support_location)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()