diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 354c5be89..68c1bb925 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ failure = "0.1.2"
 filetime = "0.2"
 flate2 = { version = "1.0.3", features = ['zlib'] }
 fs2 = "0.4"
-git2 = "0.7.5"
+git2 = "0.8.0"
 git2-curl = "0.8.1"
 glob = "0.2.11"
 hex = "0.3"