diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 521e2fcbb0..253ffe3368 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 ## v.NEXT
 
+* Node has been upgraded to version 4.8.1.
+
+* The `npm` npm package has been upgraded to version 4.4.4.
+  It should be noted that this version reduces extra noise
+  previously included in some npm errors.
+
+* The `node-gyp` npm package has been upgraded to 3.6.0 which
+  adds support for VS2017 on Windows.
+
+* The `node-pre-gyp` npm package has been updated to 0.6.36.
+
 * Thanks to the outstanding efforts of @sethmurphy18, the `minifier-js`
   package now uses [Babili](https://github.com/babel/babili) instead of
   [UglifyJS](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2), resolving numerous
diff --git a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
index 5f0746786e..d0c9b1fdd5 100644
--- a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ set -u
 UNAME=$(uname)
 ARCH=$(uname -m)
 MONGO_VERSION=3.2.12
-NODE_VERSION=4.8.0
-NPM_VERSION=4.3.0
+NODE_VERSION=4.8.1
+NPM_VERSION=4.4.4
 
 if [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ] ; then
     if [ "$ARCH" != "i686" -a "$ARCH" != "x86_64" ] ; then
diff --git a/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js b/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
index 19b74b7f69..90ef636b87 100644
--- a/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
+++ b/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ var packageJson = {
   dependencies: {
     // Explicit dependency because we are replacing it with a bundled version
     // and we want to make sure there are no dependencies on a higher version
-    npm: "4.3.0",
-    "node-gyp": "3.5.0",
-    "node-pre-gyp": "0.6.33",
+    npm: "4.4.4",
+    "node-gyp": "3.6.0",
+    "node-pre-gyp": "0.6.34",
     "meteor-babel": "0.19.1",
     "meteor-promise": "0.8.0",
     fibers: "1.0.15",
diff --git a/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js b/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
index 3f90762bdf..5a5bef6c3d 100644
--- a/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
+++ b/tools/cli/dev-bundle-bin-helpers.js
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ exports.getEnv = function (options) {
 
     var env = Object.create(process.env);
 
+    // Make sure notifications to update npm aren't presented to the user.
+    env.NPM_CONFIG_NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER = true;
+
     // Make sure `meteor npm install --global ...` installs into
     // dev_bundle/lib/node_modules by default.
     if (! env.NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX) {
diff --git a/tools/isobuild/bundler.js b/tools/isobuild/bundler.js
index 67c13e50cd..526b5e1eed 100644
--- a/tools/isobuild/bundler.js
+++ b/tools/isobuild/bundler.js
@@ -2244,8 +2244,8 @@ class ServerTarget extends JsImageTarget {
     serverPkgJson.scripts = serverPkgJson.scripts || {};
     serverPkgJson.scripts.install = "node npm-rebuild.js";
 
-    serverPkgJson.dependencies["node-gyp"] = "3.5.0";
-    serverPkgJson.dependencies["node-pre-gyp"] = "0.6.33";
+    serverPkgJson.dependencies["node-gyp"] = "3.6.0";
+    serverPkgJson.dependencies["node-pre-gyp"] = "0.6.34";
 
     builder.write('package.json', {
       data: new Buffer(