diff --git a/core/composer.json b/core/composer.json
index fd7fbad584..e25cfac031 100644
--- a/core/composer.json
+++ b/core/composer.json
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         "typo3/phar-stream-wrapper": "^3.1.3",
         "twig/twig": "^1.38.2",
         "doctrine/common": "^2.7",
-        "doctrine/annotations": "^1.4",
+        "doctrine/annotations": "^1.7",
         "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3",
         "symfony-cmf/routing": "^1.4",
         "easyrdf/easyrdf": "^0.9",
diff --git a/core/drupalci.yml b/core/drupalci.yml
index 111c11de06..69ff870b90 100644
--- a/core/drupalci.yml
+++ b/core/drupalci.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ build:
       container_command:
         commands:
           - "sudo -u www-data /usr/local/bin/composer require composer/composer:dev-master mikey179/vfsstream:v1.x-dev --no-progress"
+          - "sudo -u www-data /usr/local/bin/composer update doctrine/annotations --with-dependencies --no-progress"
       # run_tests task is executed several times in order of performance speeds.
       # halt-on-fail can be set on the run_tests tasks in order to fail fast.
       # suppress-deprecations is false in order to be alerted to usages of