diff --git a/packages/gatsby/package.json b/packages/gatsby/package.json
index 5a739fcef98e5..5e239cd55e4b2 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby/package.json
+++ b/packages/gatsby/package.json
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "better-queue": "^3.8.6",
     "bluebird": "^3.5.0",
     "chalk": "^1.1.3",
-    "chokidar": "^1.7.0",
+    "chokidar": "^2.0.0",
     "chunk-manifest-webpack-plugin": "0.1.0",
     "common-tags": "^1.4.0",
     "convert-hrtime": "^2.0.0",
@@ -110,10 +110,10 @@
     "url-loader": "^0.5.7",
     "uuid": "^3.1.0",
     "v8-compile-cache": "^1.1.0",
-    "webpack": "^1.13.3",
+    "webpack": "^2.2.0",
     "webpack-configurator": "^0.3.0",
     "webpack-dev-middleware": "^1.8.4",
-    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.1",
+    "webpack-dev-server": "^2.11.4",
     "webpack-hot-middleware": "^2.13.2",
     "webpack-md5-hash": "0.0.5",
     "webpack-stats-plugin": "^0.1.4",