diff --git a/core/server/middleware/index.js b/core/server/middleware/index.js
index 196df13981..3cb1245364 100644
--- a/core/server/middleware/index.js
+++ b/core/server/middleware/index.js
@@ -299,13 +299,11 @@ setupMiddleware = function (blogAppInstance, adminApp) {
     // site map
     sitemapHandler(blogApp);
 
-    // Add in all trailing slashes, properly include the subdir path
-    // in the redirect.
+    // Add in all trailing slashes
     blogApp.use(slashes(true, {
         headers: {
             'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=' + utils.ONE_YEAR_S
-        },
-        base: config.paths.subdir
+        }
     }));
     blogApp.use(uncapitalise);
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d806f426e8..334fc18012 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -32,20 +32,20 @@
     "engineStrict": true,
     "dependencies": {
         "bcryptjs": "2.0.2",
-        "bluebird": "2.3.10",
-        "body-parser": "1.8.2",
+        "bluebird": "2.4.2",
+        "body-parser": "1.10.0",
         "bookshelf": "0.7.9",
-        "busboy": "0.2.8",
+        "busboy": "0.2.9",
         "cheerio": "0.18.0",
         "colors": "0.6.2",
         "compression": "1.2.2",
-        "connect-slashes": "1.2.0",
+        "connect-slashes": "1.3.0",
         "downsize": "0.0.8",
         "express": "4.10.6",
         "express-hbs": "0.7.11",
         "extract-zip": "1.0.3",
-        "fs-extra": "0.12.0",
-        "glob": "4.3.1",
+        "fs-extra": "0.13.0",
+        "glob": "4.3.2",
         "html-to-text": "1.0.0",
         "knex": "0.7.3",
         "lodash": "2.4.1",
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
         "node-uuid": "1.4.2",
         "nodemailer": "0.7.1",
         "oauth2orize": "1.0.1",
-        "passport": "0.2.0",
+        "passport": "0.2.1",
         "passport-http-bearer": "1.0.1",
-        "passport-oauth2-client-password": "0.1.1",
+        "passport-oauth2-client-password": "0.1.2",
         "request": "2.51.0",
         "rss": "1.0.0",
         "semver": "4.1.0",
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
         "grunt-ember-templates": "~0.5.0-alpha",
         "grunt-es6-module-transpiler": "~0.6.0",
         "grunt-express-server": "~0.4.19",
-        "grunt-jscs": "~1.0.0",
+        "grunt-jscs": "~1.1.0",
         "grunt-mocha-cli": "~1.11.0",
         "grunt-sass": "~0.16.1",
         "grunt-shell": "~1.1.1",