diff --git a/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD b/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
index f6049369a9ad..82fcae17b6a6 100644
--- a/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
+++ b/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ envoy_cmake_external(
         "CARES_SHARED": "no",
         "CARES_STATIC": "on",
         "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "RelWithDebInfo",
-        # Disable ranlib because it is not handled by bazel, and therefore
-        # doesn't respect custom toolchains such as the Android NDK,
-        # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/issues/252
-        "CMAKE_RANLIB": "",
     },
     copy_pdb = True,
     lib_source = "@com_github_c_ares_c_ares//:all",
@@ -95,10 +91,6 @@ envoy_cmake_external(
         "EVENT__DISABLE_TESTS": "on",
         "EVENT__LIBRARY_TYPE": "STATIC",
         "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "Release",
-        # Disable ranlib because it is not handled by bazel, and therefore
-        # doesn't respect custom toolchains such as the Android NDK,
-        # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/issues/252
-        "CMAKE_RANLIB": "",
         # Force _GNU_SOURCE on for Android builds. This would be contained in
         # a 'select' but the downstream macro uses a select on all of these
         # options, and they cannot be nested.
@@ -126,10 +118,6 @@ envoy_cmake_external(
         "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "RelWithDebInfo",
         "CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR": "lib",
         "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FORCED": "on",
-        # Disable ranlib because it is not handled by bazel, and therefore
-        # doesn't respect custom toolchains such as the Android NDK,
-        # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/issues/252
-        "CMAKE_RANLIB": "",
     },
     cmake_files_dir = "$BUILD_TMPDIR/lib/CMakeFiles",
     copy_pdb = True,
@@ -149,10 +137,6 @@ envoy_cmake_external(
         "YAML_CPP_BUILD_TOOLS": "off",
         "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "RelWithDebInfo",
         "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FORCED": "on",
-        # Disable ranlib because it is not handled by bazel, and therefore
-        # doesn't respect custom toolchains such as the Android NDK,
-        # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/issues/252
-        "CMAKE_RANLIB": "",
     },
     lib_source = "@com_github_jbeder_yaml_cpp//:all",
     static_libraries = select({
@@ -167,10 +151,6 @@ envoy_cmake_external(
     name = "zlib",
     cache_entries = {
         "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "RelWithDebInfo",
-        # Disable ranlib because it is not handled by bazel, and therefore
-        # doesn't respect custom toolchains such as the Android NDK,
-        # see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/issues/252
-        "CMAKE_RANLIB": "",
     },
     copy_pdb = True,
     lib_source = "@net_zlib//:all",
diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index d809a6f87192..5cee046006e9 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -215,10 +215,10 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS = dict(
         urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/releases/download/0.18.5/rules_go-0.18.5.tar.gz"],
     ),
     rules_foreign_cc = dict(
-        sha256 = "980c1b74f5c18ea099889b0fb0479ee34b8a02845d3d302ecb16b15d73d624c8",
-        strip_prefix = "rules_foreign_cc-a0dc109915cea85909bef586e2b2a9bbdc6c8ff5",
-        # 2019-06-04
-        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/archive/a0dc109915cea85909bef586e2b2a9bbdc6c8ff5.tar.gz"],
+        sha256 = "c957e6663094a1478c43330c1bbfa71afeaf1ab86b7565233783301240c7a0ab",
+        strip_prefix = "rules_foreign_cc-a209b642c7687a8894c19b3dd40e43e6d3f38e83",
+        # 2019-07-17
+        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/archive/a209b642c7687a8894c19b3dd40e43e6d3f38e83.tar.gz"],
     ),
     six_archive = dict(
         sha256 = "105f8d68616f8248e24bf0e9372ef04d3cc10104f1980f54d57b2ce73a5ad56a",