diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4e70a0f79..7d7a891c7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     "aws-sdk": "^2.2.3",
     "bluebird": "^2.9.34",
     "body-parser": "^1.13.3",
+    "bufferutil": "^1.2.1",
     "chalk": "~1.1.1",
     "commander": "^2.9.0",
     "compression": "^1.5.2",
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@
     "serve-favicon": "^2.2.0",
     "serve-static": "^1.9.2",
     "slack-client": "^2.0.0-beta.3",
-    "socket.io": "1.4.4",
+    "socket.io": "1.4.5",
     "split": "^1.0.0",
     "stf-appstore-db": "^1.0.0",
     "stf-browser-db": "^1.0.2",
@@ -81,7 +82,8 @@
     "stf-wiki": "^1.0.0",
     "temp": "^0.8.1",
     "transliteration": "^0.1.1",
-    "ws": "^0.8.0",
+    "utf-8-validate": "^1.2.1",
+    "ws": "^1.0.1",
     "zmq": "^2.14.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@
     "memory-fs": "^0.3.0",
     "node-libs-browser": "^1.0.0",
     "node-sass": "^3.4.2",
-    "phantomjs": "^2.1.3",
+    "phantomjs-prebuilt": "^2.1.3",
     "protractor": "^3.0.0",
     "protractor-html-screenshot-reporter": "0.0.21",
     "raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
@@ -131,14 +133,14 @@
     "script-loader": "^0.6.1",
     "sinon": "^1.17.2",
     "sinon-chai": "^2.7.0",
-    "socket.io-client": "1.4.4",
+    "socket.io-client": "1.4.5",
     "style-loader": "^0.13.0",
     "template-html-loader": "^0.0.3",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.7",
     "webpack": "^1.12.11",
     "webpack-dev-server": "^1.14.1"
   },
-  "engineStrict" : true,
+  "engineStrict": true,
   "engines": {
     "node": ">= 4.2"
   },