diff --git a/artisan b/artisan
index 36bb2d983..961e94d0b 100644
--- a/artisan
+++ b/artisan
@@ -15,35 +15,7 @@
 
 require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
 
-/*
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-| Turn On The Lights
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|
-| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let's turn on the lights.
-| This bootstrap the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
-| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
-| the responses back to the browser and delight these users.
-|
-*/
-
-$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php';
-
-/*
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-| Load The Artisan Console Application
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|
-| We'll need to run the script to load and return the Artisan console
-| application. We keep this in its own script so that we will load
-| the console application independent of running commands which
-| will allow us to fire commands from Routes when we want to.
-|
-*/
-
-$app->setRequestForConsoleEnvironment();
-
-$artisan = Illuminate\Console\Application::start($app);
+$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';
 
 /*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -56,7 +28,12 @@ $artisan = Illuminate\Console\Application::start($app);
 |
 */
 
-$status = $artisan->run();
+$kernel = $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel');
+
+$status = $kernel->handle(
+    $input = new Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput,
+    new Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput
+);
 
 /*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -69,6 +46,6 @@ $status = $artisan->run();
 |
 */
 
-$app->shutdown();
+$kernel->terminate($input, $status);
 
 exit($status);
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