diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fa4264de97416..4adda05db7282 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
     "angular-bootstrap-colorpicker": "3.0.19",
     "angular-elastic": "2.5.0",
     "angular-route": "1.4.7",
+    "angular-sanitize": "1.5.7",
     "ansicolors": "0.3.2",
     "autoprefixer": "5.1.1",
     "autoprefixer-loader": "2.0.0",
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@
     "less-loader": "2.2.0",
     "loader-utils": "0.2.11",
     "lodash": "3.10.1",
-    "marked": "0.3.3",
+    "marked": "0.3.5",
     "minimatch": "2.0.10",
     "mkdirp": "0.5.1",
     "moment": "2.10.6",
@@ -160,7 +161,6 @@
     "grunt-s3": "0.2.0-alpha.3",
     "grunt-simple-mocha": "0.4.0",
     "gruntify-eslint": "1.0.1",
-    "html-entities": "1.1.3",
     "husky": "0.8.1",
     "intern": "3.2.3",
     "istanbul-instrumenter-loader": "0.1.3",
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@
     "license-checker": "3.1.0",
     "load-grunt-config": "0.7.2",
     "makelogs": "2.0.0",
-    "marked-text-renderer": "0.1.0",
     "mocha": "2.3.0",
     "nock": "2.10.0",
     "npm": "2.15.8",
diff --git a/src/plugins/markdown_vis/public/markdown_vis_controller.js b/src/plugins/markdown_vis/public/markdown_vis_controller.js
index 00b859702edd5..9f8ad8cc21e34 100644
--- a/src/plugins/markdown_vis/public/markdown_vis_controller.js
+++ b/src/plugins/markdown_vis/public/markdown_vis_controller.js
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 define(function (require) {
   const marked = require('marked');
+  require('angular-sanitize');
+
   marked.setOptions({
     gfm: true, // Github-flavored markdown
     sanitize: true // Sanitize HTML tags
   });
 
-  const module = require('ui/modules').get('kibana/markdown_vis', ['kibana']);
+  const module = require('ui/modules').get('kibana/markdown_vis', ['kibana', 'ngSanitize']);
   module.controller('KbnMarkdownVisController', function ($scope, $sce) {
     $scope.$watch('vis.params.markdown', function (html) {
       if (!html) return;
-      $scope.html = $sce.trustAsHtml(marked(html));
+      $scope.html = marked(html);
     });
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/_map.js b/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/_map.js
index 30f6d92496f21..584edeffa3943 100644
--- a/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/_map.js
+++ b/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/_map.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 define(function (require) {
-  return function MapFactory(Private, tilemap) {
+  return function MapFactory(Private, tilemap, $sanitize) {
     let _ = require('lodash');
     let $ = require('jquery');
     let L = require('leaflet');
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ define(function (require) {
     let defaultMarkerType = 'Scaled Circle Markers';
 
     let tilemapOptions = tilemap.options;
-    let attribution = marked(tilemapOptions.attribution);
+    let attribution = $sanitize(marked(tilemapOptions.attribution));
 
     let mapTiles = {
       url: tilemap.url,
diff --git a/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize.js b/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize.js
index 522764dd21ac2..5b0e1b190e11b 100644
--- a/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize.js
+++ b/src/ui/public/visualize/visualize.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 define(function (require) {
+  require('angular-sanitize');
+
   require('ui/modules')
-  .get('kibana/directive')
+  .get('kibana/directive', ['ngSanitize'])
   .directive('visualize', function (Notifier, SavedVis, indexPatterns, Private, config, $timeout) {
 
     require('ui/visualize/spy');
diff --git a/tasks/build/readme.js b/tasks/build/readme.js
index a89039dba9f73..aa139c1df400f 100644
--- a/tasks/build/readme.js
+++ b/tasks/build/readme.js
@@ -1,37 +1,17 @@
 let marked = require('marked');
 let Promise = require('bluebird');
 let { join } = require('path');
-let TextRenderer = require('marked-text-renderer');
 let _ = require('lodash');
 let fs = require('fs');
-let { AllHtmlEntities } = require('html-entities');
-let entities = new AllHtmlEntities();
-
-TextRenderer.prototype.heading = function (text, level, raw) {
-  return '\n\n' + text + '\n' + _.map(text, function () { return '='; }).join('') + '\n';
-};
 
 module.exports = function (grunt) {
-
   grunt.registerTask('_build:readme', function () {
-    let transform = function (input) {
-      let output = input.replace(/<\!\-\- [^\-]+ \-\->/g, '\n');
-      output = marked(output);
-      return entities.decode(output);
-    };
-
-    marked.setOptions({
-      renderer: new TextRenderer(),
-      tables: true,
-      breaks: false,
-      pedantic: false,
-      sanitize: false,
-      smartLists: true,
-      smartypants: false
-    });
+    function transformReadme(readme) {
+      return readme.replace(/\s##\sSnapshot\sBuilds[\s\S]*/, '');
+    }
 
-    grunt.file.write('build/kibana/README.txt', transform(grunt.file.read('README.md')));
-    grunt.file.write('build/kibana/LICENSE.txt', transform(grunt.file.read('LICENSE.md')));
+    grunt.file.copy('LICENSE.md', 'build/kibana/LICENSE.txt');
+    grunt.file.write('build/kibana/README.txt', transformReadme(grunt.file.read('README.md')));
   });
 
 };