diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a8a086fe6..a6fae950a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "private": false,
   "description": "The Open Source Routing Machine is a high performance routing engine written in C++14 designed to run on OpenStreetMap data.",
   "dependencies": {
-    "nan": "^2.1.0",
+    "nan": "^2.6.2",
     "node-cmake": "^2.3.2",
     "node-pre-gyp": "^0.6.34"
   },