diff --git a/kong-2.4.0-0.rockspec b/kong-2.4.0-0.rockspec
index 3934d1e6cddb..2ba1a351e14b 100644
--- a/kong-2.4.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-2.4.0-0.rockspec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "inspect == 3.1.1",
   "luasec == 1.0",
   "luasocket == 3.0-rc1",
-  "penlight == 1.9.2",
+  "penlight == 1.10.0",
   "lua-resty-http == 0.15",
   "lua-resty-jit-uuid == 0.0.7",
   "lua-ffi-zlib == 0.5",