diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fe1d9fbdf..c7e40f586 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "babel-preset-es2015-without-strict": "^0.0.4",
     "coveralls": "^3.0.0",
     "es5-shim": "^4.5.9",
-    "eslint": "^4.17.0",
+    "eslint": "^5.9.0",
     "eslint-config-pretty-standard": "^1.2.0",
     "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.8.0",
     "eslint-plugin-mocha": "^5.2.0",