diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bfbed9ea0bab4..b2b6b829577d4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "ansistyles": "~0.1.3",
     "aproba": "^2.0.0",
     "archy": "~1.0.0",
-    "bin-links": "^1.1.7",
+    "bin-links": "^2.0.0",
     "bluebird": "^3.5.5",
     "byte-size": "^5.0.1",
     "cacache": "^12.0.3",
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     "mississippi": "^3.0.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.5",
     "move-concurrently": "^1.0.1",
-    "node-gyp": "^5.1.0",
+    "node-gyp": "^8.0.0",
     "nopt": "^4.0.3",
     "normalize-package-data": "^2.5.0",
     "npm-audit-report": "^1.3.2",
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "deep-equal": "^1.0.1",
     "get-stream": "^4.1.0",
-    "licensee": "^7.0.3",
+    "licensee": "^9.0.0",
     "marked": "^0.6.3",
     "marked-man": "^0.6.0",
     "npm-registry-couchapp": "^2.7.4",
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
     "sprintf-js": "^1.1.2",
     "standard": "^11.0.1",
     "tacks": "^1.3.0",
-    "tap": "^12.7.0",
+    "tap": "^16.0.0",
     "tar-stream": "^2.1.0"
   },
   "scripts": {