diff --git a/js/octokit/package.json b/js/octokit/package.json
index a5ef8d90..41194bac 100644
--- a/js/octokit/package.json
+++ b/js/octokit/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "grunt": "~0.4.2",
-    "bower": "~1.0",
+    "bower": "~1.8",
     "coffee-script": "~1.6.3",
     "docco": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-coffeelint": "~0.0.7",