diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eecfffe169..83676b0fa3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
       <cobertura.halt.failure>false</cobertura.halt.failure>
       <delombok.dir>${project.build.directory}/delombok/org/zanata</delombok.dir>
       <enunciate.version>1.24</enunciate.version>
-      <gwt.version>2.4.0</gwt.version>
+      <gwt.version>2.5.0</gwt.version>
       <icu4j.version>4.8</icu4j.version>
       <lombok.source.dir>${project.build.sourceDirectory}/org/zanata</lombok.source.dir>
       <lucene.version>2.9.2</lucene.version>
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.4.0</version>
+                <version>2.5.0-rc2</version>
             </plugin>
              <plugin>
                  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
diff --git a/zanata-war/pom.xml b/zanata-war/pom.xml
index f3b41d9c1e..312f80a8f1 100644
--- a/zanata-war/pom.xml
+++ b/zanata-war/pom.xml
@@ -166,6 +166,23 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <dependencies>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
+                        <version>${gwt.version}</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
+                        <version>${gwt.version}</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>gwt-codeserver</artifactId>
+                        <version>${gwt.version}</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                </dependencies>
 				<executions>
 					<execution>
 						<id>compile</id>