diff --git a/build/build-image/cross/Dockerfile b/build/build-image/cross/Dockerfile
index f8aff81ca8f..19368e695bd 100644
--- a/build/build-image/cross/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/build-image/cross/Dockerfile
@@ -15,15 +15,17 @@
 # This file creates a standard build environment for building cross
 # platform go binary for the architecture kubernetes cares about.
 
-FROM  golang:1.4.2
-MAINTAINER  Joe Beda <jbeda@google.com>
+FROM  golang:1.5.3
+# Original MAINTAINER  Joe Beda <jbeda@google.com>
+MAINTAINER Brendan Burns <bburns@google.com>
 
 ENV KUBE_CROSSPLATFORMS \
   linux/386 linux/arm \
   darwin/amd64 darwin/386 \
   windows/amd64 windows/386
 
-RUN cd /usr/src/go/src && for platform in ${KUBE_CROSSPLATFORMS}; do GOOS=${platform%/*} GOARCH=${platform##*/} ./make.bash --no-clean; done
+# Pre-compile the standard go library when cross-compiling. This is much easier now when we have go1.5
+RUN for platform in ${KUBE_CROSSPLATFORMS}; do GOOS=${platform%/*} GOARCH=${platform##*/} go install std; done
 
 # Install g++, then download and install protoc for generating protobuf output
 RUN apt-get install -y g++ && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* &&\