diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index e3ad5b8acc..f8530019e1 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -408,4 +408,4 @@ packages:
     source: hosted
     version: "2.1.13"
 sdks:
-  dart: ">=2.0.0-dev.23.0 <=2.0.0-dev.42.0"
+  dart: ">=2.0.0-dev.23.0 <=2.0.0-dev.43.0"
diff --git a/tool/grind.dart b/tool/grind.dart
index 452210a50b..144ce1064c 100644
--- a/tool/grind.dart
+++ b/tool/grind.dart
@@ -627,8 +627,8 @@ updateTestPackageDocs() async {
 @Task('Validate the SDK doc build.')
 @Depends(buildSdkDocs)
 validateSdkDocs() {
-  const expectedLibCount = 19;
-
+  const expectedLibCount = 7;
+  const expectedSubLibCount = 12;
   File indexHtml = joinFile(sdkDocsDir, ['index.html']);
   if (!indexHtml.existsSync()) {
     fail('no index.html found for SDK docs');
@@ -642,12 +642,20 @@ validateSdkDocs() {
   }
   log('$foundLibs index.html dart: entries found');
 
+  int foundSubLibs =
+      _findCount(indexContents, '<li class="section-subitem"><a href="dart-');
+  if (foundSubLibs != expectedSubLibCount) {
+    fail(
+        'expected $expectedSubLibCount dart: index.html entries in categories, found $foundSubLibs');
+  }
+  log('$foundSubLibs index.html dart: entries in categories found');
+
   // check for the existence of certain files/dirs
   var libsLength =
       sdkDocsDir.listSync().where((fs) => fs.path.contains('dart-')).length;
-  if (libsLength != expectedLibCount) {
+  if (libsLength != expectedLibCount + expectedSubLibCount) {
     fail('docs not generated for all the SDK libraries, '
-        'expected $expectedLibCount directories, generated $libsLength directories');
+        'expected ${expectedLibCount + expectedSubLibCount} directories, generated $libsLength directories');
   }
   log('$libsLength dart: libraries found');