diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 72481f2e3cdd..52e36eb30ea9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@
     "react-gemini-scrollbar": "matrix-org/react-gemini-scrollbar#5e97aef",
     "resize-observer-polyfill": "^1.5.0",
     "sanitize-html": "^1.18.4",
-    "slate": "0.34.7",
+    "slate": "^0.41.2",
     "slate-html-serializer": "^0.6.1",
     "slate-md-serializer": "matrix-org/slate-md-serializer#f7c4ad3",
-    "slate-react": "^0.12.4",
+    "slate-react": "^0.18.10",
     "text-encoding-utf-8": "^1.0.1",
     "url": "^0.11.0",
     "velocity-vector": "vector-im/velocity#059e3b2",
@@ -142,6 +142,6 @@
     "sinon": "^5.0.7",
     "source-map-loader": "^0.2.3",
     "walk": "^2.3.9",
-    "webpack": "^1.12.14"
+    "webpack": "^3.12.0"
   }
 }