diff --git a/src/core/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/src/core/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 425e5a0d43..ad8ce258c9 100644
--- a/src/core/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/core/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,11 +10,10 @@ set(MY_PROJ_INC_PATH
     ../core ../tools/common ../tools/simulator ../tools/hpc ../tools/nfs 
     )
     
-set(MY_BOOST_PACKAGES system filesystem)
+set(MY_BOOST_PACKAGES system filesystem regex)
 
 set(MY_PROJ_LIBS gtest
                  dsn_runtime
-                 boost_regex
                  )
 
 set(MY_PROJ_LIB_PATH "${GTEST_LIB_DIR}")
diff --git a/thirdparty/build-thirdparty.sh b/thirdparty/build-thirdparty.sh
index 2d705a4f05..9f878a792d 100755
--- a/thirdparty/build-thirdparty.sh
+++ b/thirdparty/build-thirdparty.sh
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ fi
 
 # build libevent
 if [ ! -d $TP_OUTPUT/include/event2 ]; then
-    cd $TP_SRC/libevent-release-2.0.22-stable
+    cd $TP_SRC/libevent-release-2.1.8-stable
     ./autogen.sh
     ./configure --enable-shared=no --disable-debug-mode --prefix=$TP_OUTPUT --with-pic=yes
     make -j8 && make install
@@ -275,3 +275,16 @@ if [ ! -d $TP_OUTPUT/include/s2 ]; then
 else
     echo "skip build s2geometry"
 fi
+
+# build gflags
+if [ ! -d $TP_OUTPUT/include/gflags ]; then
+    cd $TP_SRC/gflags-2.2.1
+    mkdir -p build && cd build
+    cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$TP_OUTPUT
+    make -j8 && make install
+    res=$?
+    exit_if_fail "gflags" $res
+    cd $TP_DIR
+else
+    echo "skip build gflags"
+fi
diff --git a/thirdparty/download-thirdparty.sh b/thirdparty/download-thirdparty.sh
index 77f6e06571..07ccdda1a2 100755
--- a/thirdparty/download-thirdparty.sh
+++ b/thirdparty/download-thirdparty.sh
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ check_and_download "zookeeper-3.4.10.tar.gz"\
 exit_if_fail $?
 
 # libevent for send http request
-check_and_download "libevent-2.0.22.tar.gz"\
-    "https://codeload.github.com/libevent/libevent/tar.gz/release-2.0.22-stable"\
-    "8913ef56ec329f2c046007bd634c7201"\
-    "libevent-release-2.0.22-stable"
+check_and_download "libevent-2.1.8.tar.gz"\
+    "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/archive/release-2.1.8-stable.tar.gz"\
+    "80f8652e4b08d2ec86a5f5eb46b74510"\
+    "libevent-release-2.1.8-stable"
 exit_if_fail $?
 
 # poco 1.7.8
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ check_and_download "fmt-4.0.0.tar.gz"\
     "fmt-4.0.0"
 exit_if_fail $?
 
+# gflags
+check_and_download "gflags-2.2.1.zip"\
+    "https://github.com/gflags/gflags/archive/v2.2.1.zip"\
+    "2d988ef0b50939fb50ada965dafce96b"\
+    "gflags-2.2.1"
+exit_if_fail $?
+
 # s2geometry
 check_and_download "s2geometry-master.zip"\
     "https://github.com/google/s2geometry/archive/master.zip"\