diff --git a/config/projects/google-fluentd.rb b/config/projects/google-fluentd.rb
index 5f1015f5..0f5278ee 100644
--- a/config/projects/google-fluentd.rb
+++ b/config/projects/google-fluentd.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 description "Google Fluentd: A data collector for Google Cloud Logging"
 
 install_dir     "/opt/google-fluentd"
-build_version   "1.5.1"
+build_version   "1.5.2"
 build_iteration 1
 
 # creates required build directories
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 if ohai['platform_family'] == 'rhel' && ohai['platform_version'].split('.').first.to_i == 7
   override :liblzma, :version => '5.1.2alpha'
 end
+# workaround until https://github.com/chef/omnibus-software/pull/473 is live.
+override :ncurses, :version => '5.9'
 
 # td-agent dependencies/components
 dependency "td-agent"
diff --git a/config/software/cacerts.rb b/config/software/cacerts.rb
index 8da87a7b..c0413a69 100644
--- a/config/software/cacerts.rb
+++ b/config/software/cacerts.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@
 name "cacerts"
 
 # Date of the file is in a comment at the start, or in the changelog
-default_version "2015.04.22"
+default_version "2015.09.02"
+
+version "2015.09.02" do
+  source md5: "3e0e6f302bd4f5b94040b8bcee0ffe15"
+end
 
 version "2015.04.22" do
   source md5: "380df856e8f789c1af97d0da9a243769"
diff --git a/plugin_gems.rb b/plugin_gems.rb
index 1ae471b3..86048333 100644
--- a/plugin_gems.rb
+++ b/plugin_gems.rb
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 download "fluent-plugin-webhdfs", "0.4.1"
 download "fluent-plugin-rewrite-tag-filter", "1.4.1"
 download "fluent-plugin-td-monitoring", "0.2.1"
-download "fluent-plugin-google-cloud", "0.4.3"
+download "fluent-plugin-google-cloud", "0.4.5"