diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 8e2139807..85a39944d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ### main branch
 
+- Upgrade to grep-ast 0.2.2 to streamline tree-sitter install
+
 ### v0.16.0
 
 - [Improved repository map using tree-sitter](https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html)
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index c90f78add..903291fd7 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM python:3.10-slim
 COPY . /aider
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y build-essential git libportaudio2 && \
+    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y git libportaudio2 && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
     pip install --no-cache-dir /aider && \
     rm -rf /aider
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e45f4330b..ee03b8ae2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ jsonschema==4.17.3
 sounddevice==0.4.6
 soundfile==0.12.1
 pathspec==0.11.2
-grep-ast==0.2.0
+grep-ast==0.2.2