diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 833c5834aa..8419a792f3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ language: node_js
 node_js:
   - '4.2'
 before_install:
+  - "npm install -g npm@2"
+  - "npm install -g gulp"
   - "sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10"
   - "echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list"
   - "sudo apt-get update"
@@ -12,4 +14,4 @@ before_script:
   - "until nc -z localhost 27017; do echo Waiting for MongoDB; sleep 1; done"
   - "export DISPLAY=:99"
 after_script:
-  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"
\ No newline at end of file
+  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ba6d1d5edf..53b5620478 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "babel": "^5.5.4",
     "body-parser": "^1.14.1",
     "bower": "~1.3.12",
-    "browserify": "~3.30.2",
+    "browserify": "~12.0.1",
     "coffee-script": "1.6.x",
     "coffeeify": "0.6.0",
     "compression": "^1.6.0",
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@
     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.6.0",
     "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.6.1",
     "grunt-hashres": "~0.4.1",
-    "grunt-karma": "~0.6.2",
+    "grunt-karma": "~0.12.1",
     "gulp": "^3.9.0",
     "gulp-babel": "^5.2.1",
-    "gulp-clean": "^0.3.1",
     "gulp-eslint": "^1.0.0",
     "gulp-grunt": "^0.5.2",
     "gulp-imagemin": "^2.3.0",
@@ -108,28 +107,20 @@
     "event-stream": "^3.2.2",
     "expect.js": "~0.2.0",
     "istanbul": "^0.3.14",
-    "karma": "~0.10.2",
-    "karma-chai-plugins": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-coffee-preprocessor": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-coverage": "^0.3.1",
-    "karma-firefox-launcher": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-html2js-preprocessor": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-jasmine": "~0.1.3",
+    "karma": "~0.13.15",
+    "karma-chai-plugins": "~0.6.0",
+    "karma-coverage": "^0.5.3",
     "karma-mocha": "^0.2.0",
     "karma-mocha-reporter": "^1.1.1",
-    "karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.1.0",
-    "karma-requirejs": "~0.2.0",
-    "karma-script-launcher": "~0.1.0",
+    "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.2.1",
     "lcov-result-merger": "^1.0.2",
     "lodash.defaultsdeep": "^3.10.0",
     "mocha": "^2.3.3",
     "mongodb": "^2.0.46",
     "mongoskin": "~0.6.1",
-    "protractor": "~2.0.0",
-    "requirejs": "~2.1",
+    "protractor": "~2.5.1",
     "rewire": "^2.3.3",
+    "rimraf": "^2.4.3",
     "shelljs": "^0.4.0",
     "sinon": "^1.17.2",
     "sinon-chai": "^2.8.0",
diff --git a/tasks/gulp-sprites.js b/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
index a5777af9ce..18c289f47c 100644
--- a/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
+++ b/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import gulp from 'gulp';
 import imagemin from 'gulp-imagemin';
 import spritesmith from 'gulp.spritesmith';
-import clean from 'gulp-clean';
+import clean from 'rimraf';
 import sizeOf from 'image-size';
 import mergeStream from 'merge-stream';
 import {basename} from 'path';
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ gulp.task('sprites:largeSprites', () => {
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:clean', (done) => {
-  gulp.src(`${DIST_PATH}spritesmith*`)
-    .pipe(clean());
-
-  done();
+  clean(`${DIST_PATH}spritesmith*`, done);
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:checkCompiledDimensions', ['sprites:main', 'sprites:largeSprites'], () => {