diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 77ad190a3..94eff2c9d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         "express-session": "^1.13.0",
         "github": "^7.0.1",
         "glob": "^7.0.5",
-        "karma": "^1.1.0",
+        "karma": "^5.0.8",
         "karma-mocha": "^1.1.1",
         "memory-cache": "^0.1.6",
         "merge": "^1.2.0",
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         "raven": "^0.12.1",
         "request": "^2.74.0",
         "snyk": "^1.17.1",
-        "socket.io": "^1.5.0",
+        "socket.io": "^2.5.0",
         "valid-url": "^1.0.9",
         "x-frame-options": "^1.0.0"
     },
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
         "grunt-mocha-test": "^0.13.2",
         "grunt-scss-lint": "^0.5.0",
         "istanbul": "^0.4.4",
-        "karma": "^1.0.0",
+        "karma": "^5.0.8",
         "karma-chrome-launcher": "^2.0.0",
         "karma-mocha": "^1.0.1",
         "karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor": "~1.0.0",