diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 6db5db595..3c309f7f1 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ load("//java/google/registry:repositories.bzl", "domain_registry_repositories")
 
 domain_registry_repositories()
 
-git_repository(
+http_archive(
     name = "io_bazel_rules_closure",
-    remote = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_closure.git",
-    tag = "0.2.3",
+    sha256 = "8c8a0f7f1327178bc8654e658cb6fff1171936e3033c5e263d513a7901a75b31",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_closure-0.2.5",
+    url = "http://bazel-mirror.storage.googleapis.com/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_closure/archive/0.2.5.tar.gz",
 )
 
 load("@io_bazel_rules_closure//closure:defs.bzl", "closure_repositories")
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ closure_repositories(
     omit_gson = True,
     omit_guava = True,
     omit_icu4j = True,
+    omit_json = True,
     omit_jsr305 = True,
     omit_jsr330_inject = True,
     omit_protobuf_java = True,
diff --git a/java/google/registry/repositories.bzl b/java/google/registry/repositories.bzl
index 94b6b6f5f..0c5fc6b6c 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/repositories.bzl
+++ b/java/google/registry/repositories.bzl
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ def domain_registry_repositories():
 
   native.maven_jar(
       name = "gson",
-      artifact = "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.4",
-      sha1 = "0695b63d702f505b9b916e02272e3b6381bade7f",
+      artifact = "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.7",
+      sha1 = "751f548c85fa49f330cecbb1875893f971b33c4e",
   )
 
   native.maven_jar(
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ def domain_registry_repositories():
 
   native.maven_jar(
       name = "icu4j",
-      artifact = "com.ibm.icu:icu4j:56.1",
-      sha1 = "8dd6671f52165a0419e6de5e1016400875a90fa9",
+      artifact = "com.ibm.icu:icu4j:57.1",
+      sha1 = "198ea005f41219f038f4291f0b0e9f3259730e92",
   )
 
   native.maven_jar(
@@ -388,8 +388,8 @@ def domain_registry_repositories():
 
   native.maven_jar(
       name = "json",
-      artifact = "org.json:json:20090211",
-      sha1 = "c183aa3a2a6250293808bba12262c8920ce5a51c",
+      artifact = "org.json:json:20160212",
+      sha1 = "a742e3f85161835b95877478c5dd5b405cefaab9",
   )
 
   native.maven_jar(