diff --git a/ddoc/dub.sdl b/ddoc/dub.sdl
index 16e1800dee..5322178ad2 100644
--- a/ddoc/dub.sdl
+++ b/ddoc/dub.sdl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name "ddoc_preprocessor"
 description "Preprocesses source code before running Ddoc over it"
-dependency "libdparse" version="~>0.8.7"
+dependency "libdparse" version="~>0.10.12"
 dependency "dmd" path="../../dmd"
 versions "DdocOptions"
 buildRequirements "disallowDeprecations"
diff --git a/ddoc/dub.selections.json b/ddoc/dub.selections.json
index 86b245c64c..1ed457312f 100644
--- a/ddoc/dub.selections.json
+++ b/ddoc/dub.selections.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 	"fileVersion": 1,
 	"versions": {
 		"dmd": {"path":"../../dmd"},
-		"libdparse": "0.8.7",
-		"stdx-allocator": "2.77.2"
+		"libdparse": "0.10.13",
+		"stdx-allocator": "2.77.5"
 	}
 }
diff --git a/ddoc/source/assert_writeln_magic.d b/ddoc/source/assert_writeln_magic.d
index 649952ba00..6fe9dfa3da 100644
--- a/ddoc/source/assert_writeln_magic.d
+++ b/ddoc/source/assert_writeln_magic.d
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env dub
-/++ dub.sdl:
-dependency "libdparse" version="0.7.2-alpha.4"
-name "assert_writeln_magic"
-+/
 /*
  * Tries to convert `assert`s into user-friendly `writeln` calls.
  * The objective of this tool is to be conservative as
@@ -76,7 +72,13 @@ class TestVisitor(Out) : ASTVisitor
             return;
 
         // only look at `a == b` within the AssertExpression
-        if (typeid(expr.assertion) != typeid(CmpExpression))
+        // we need to support the old libdparse 0.8 (for ddox)
+        static if (__traits(compiles, expr.assertion)) {
+            const args = expr; // libdparse 0.8
+        } else {
+            const args = expr.assertArguments; // newer libdparse
+        }
+        if (typeid(args.assertion) != typeid(CmpExpression))
             return;
 
         lastAssert = expr;
diff --git a/dpl-docs/dub.json b/dpl-docs/dub.json
index b86ae551cb..e6a27ed01a 100644
--- a/dpl-docs/dub.json
+++ b/dpl-docs/dub.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
 	"name": "dpl-docs",
 	"dependencies": {
-		"ddox": "~>0.16.11",
+		"ddox": "~>0.16.12",
 		"ddoc_preprocessor": {
 		  "path": "../ddoc"
 		}
diff --git a/dpl-docs/dub.selections.json b/dpl-docs/dub.selections.json
index dea152c312..b78d42bcc6 100644
--- a/dpl-docs/dub.selections.json
+++ b/dpl-docs/dub.selections.json
@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@
 		"botan": "1.12.10",
 		"botan-math": "1.0.3",
 		"ddoc_preprocessor": {"path":"../ddoc"},
-		"ddox": "0.16.11",
+		"ddox": "0.16.12",
 		"diet-ng": "1.5.0",
 		"dmd": {"path":"../../dmd"},
-		"eventcore": "0.8.35",
-		"hyphenate": "1.1.1",
+		"eventcore": "0.8.40",
+		"hyphenate": "1.1.2",
 		"libasync": "0.8.3",
-		"libdparse": "0.8.7",
+		"libdparse": "0.8.8",
 		"libevent": "2.0.2+2.0.16",
-		"memutils": "0.4.11",
-		"mir-linux-kernel": "1.0.0",
+		"memutils": "0.4.13",
+		"mir-linux-kernel": "1.0.1",
 		"openssl": "1.1.6+1.0.1g",
-		"stdx-allocator": "2.77.2",
-		"taggedalgebraic": "0.10.11",
-		"vibe-core": "1.4.0",
+		"stdx-allocator": "2.77.5",
+		"taggedalgebraic": "0.10.12",
+		"vibe-core": "1.4.6",
 		"vibe-d": "0.8.4"
 	}
 }