diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 5c50c2d26063..65c665c81844 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
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         "alt-three/bus": "^4.1",
-        "alt-three/emoji": "^6.1",
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         "aws/aws-sdk-php": "^3.7",
         "barryvdh/laravel-cors": "^0.11.0",
-        "doctrine/dbal": "2.8.*",
+        "doctrine/dbal": "2.9.*",
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@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@
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         "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.4",
-        "symfony/css-selector": "^4.0",
-        "symfony/dom-crawler": "^4.0",
+        "symfony/css-selector": "^4.1",
+        "symfony/dom-crawler": "^4.1",
         "tightenco/mailthief": "^0.3.14"
     },
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diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 36d963024218..89bb70ea840e 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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+    "content-hash": "1bd7ae2a0b16cd5d1f058e5499a8ed15",
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@@ -127,16 +127,16 @@
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+            "version": "v7.0.0",
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                 "url": "https://github.com/AltThree/Emoji.git",
-                "reference": "a0512f21dc946676315178f254717c6714bf667f"
+                "reference": "e0eab12ca83e0ec56908fc066227e7da7f97d7f0"
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-                "reference": "a0512f21dc946676315178f254717c6714bf667f",
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@@ -150,12 +150,13 @@
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                 "graham-campbell/markdown": "^10.2",
                 "graham-campbell/testbench": "^5.1",
+                "mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
                 "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.5|^7.0"
             },
             "type": "library",
             "extra": {
                 "branch-alias": {
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+                    "dev-master": "7.0-dev"
                 },
                 "laravel": {
                     "providers": [
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@
                 "emoji",
                 "parser"
             ],
-            "time": "2018-09-29T10:43:23+00:00"
+            "time": "2018-12-28T16:34:12+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "alt-three/throttle",
@@ -819,16 +820,16 @@
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         {
             "name": "doctrine/dbal",
-            "version": "v2.8.1",
+            "version": "v2.9.1",
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                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/doctrine/dbal.git",
-                "reference": "a9019c1e3232eacace373a6ba957a85b66a255c1"
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-                "reference": "a9019c1e3232eacace373a6ba957a85b66a255c1",
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             "require": {
@@ -838,11 +839,10 @@
                 "php": "^7.1"
             },
             "require-dev": {
-                "doctrine/coding-standard": "^4.0",
+                "doctrine/coding-standard": "^5.0",
                 "jetbrains/phpstorm-stubs": "^2018.1.2",
                 "phpstan/phpstan": "^0.10.1",
-                "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.1.2",
-                "phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects": "!=3.2.4,!=3.2.5",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.4",
                 "symfony/console": "^2.0.5|^3.0|^4.0",
                 "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^3.4.5|^4.0.5"
             },
@@ -855,13 +855,13 @@
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             "extra": {
                 "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "2.8.x-dev",
+                    "dev-master": "2.9.x-dev",
                     "dev-develop": "3.0.x-dev"
                 }
             },
             "autoload": {
-                "psr-0": {
-                    "Doctrine\\DBAL\\": "lib/"
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Doctrine\\DBAL\\": "lib/Doctrine/DBAL"
                 }
             },
             "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
@@ -886,15 +886,19 @@
                     "email": "jonwage@gmail.com"
                 }
             ],
-            "description": "Database Abstraction Layer",
-            "homepage": "http://www.doctrine-project.org",
+            "description": "Powerful PHP database abstraction layer (DBAL) with many features for database schema introspection and management.",
+            "homepage": "https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/dbal.html",
             "keywords": [
+                "abstraction",
                 "database",
                 "dbal",
+                "mysql",
                 "persistence",
+                "pgsql",
+                "php",
                 "queryobject"
             ],
-            "time": "2018-12-04T06:44:25+00:00"
+            "time": "2018-12-14T04:51:13+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "doctrine/event-manager",
diff --git a/config/emoji.php b/config/emoji.php
index d7964b23443a..38834500e338 100644
--- a/config/emoji.php
+++ b/config/emoji.php
@@ -23,4 +23,38 @@
 
     'token' => env('GITHUB_TOKEN', null),
 
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Cache Connection
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | Here you may tell us what cache connection to use. To use the default,
+    | set this to null.
+    |
+    */
+
+    'connection' => null,
+
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Cache Key
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | Here you may tell us what cache key to use for storing the emoji map.
+    |
+    */
+
+    'key' => 'emoji',
+
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Cache Life
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | Here you may tell us how long in minutes to cache the emoji map.
+    |
+    */
+
+    'life' => 10080,
+
 ];