diff --git a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
index 345c6958381e84..70c245c1fd5f21 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
+++ b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ dependencies {
     api("com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2")
     api("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:${OKHTTP_VERSION}")
     api("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-urlconnection:${OKHTTP_VERSION}")
-    api("com.squareup.okio:okio:1.15.0")
+    api("com.squareup.okio:okio:1.17.5")
     api("com.facebook.fbjni:fbjni-java-only:0.0.3")
     extractHeaders("com.facebook.fbjni:fbjni:0.0.2:headers")
     extractJNI("com.facebook.fbjni:fbjni:0.0.2")
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation("org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4-rule:${POWERMOCK_VERSION}")
     testImplementation("org.powermock:powermock-classloading-xstream:${POWERMOCK_VERSION}")
     testImplementation("org.mockito:mockito-core:${MOCKITO_CORE_VERSION}")
-    testImplementation("org.easytesting:fest-assert-core:${FEST_ASSERT_CORE_VERSION}")
+    testImplementation("org.easytesting:fest-assert-core:2.0M10")
     testImplementation("org.robolectric:robolectric:${ROBOLECTRIC_VERSION}")
 
     androidTestImplementation(fileTree(dir: "src/main/third-party/java/buck-android-support/", include: ["*.jar"]))
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/gradle.properties b/ReactAndroid/gradle.properties
index 766e22770f7b6c..2287cd057099fc 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/gradle.properties
+++ b/ReactAndroid/gradle.properties
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ MOCKITO_CORE_VERSION=2.26.0
 POWERMOCK_VERSION=2.0.2
 ROBOLECTRIC_VERSION=4.4
 JUNIT_VERSION=4.12
-FEST_ASSERT_CORE_VERSION=2.0M10
 
 ANDROIDX_TEST_VERSION=1.1.0
 FRESCO_VERSION=2.0.0
@@ -23,4 +22,3 @@ GLOG_VERSION=0.3.5
 
 android.useAndroidX=true
 android.enableJetifier=true
-android.enableR8=false
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/okio/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/okio/BUCK
index e244efaa9aca28..e62ba43e228b15 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/okio/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/okio/BUCK
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ rn_prebuilt_jar(
 
 fb_native.remote_file(
     name = "okio-binary.jar",
-    sha1 = "bc28b5a964c8f5721eb58ee3f3c47a9bcbf4f4d8",
-    url = "mvn:com.squareup.okio:okio:jar:1.15.0",
+    sha1 = "34336f82f14dde1c0752fd5f0546dbf3c3225aba",
+    url = "mvn:com.squareup.okio:okio:jar:1.17.5",
 )