diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 22c87e97..2a33a8fc 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     "level-community": "^3.0.0",
     "level-concat-iterator": "^2.0.0",
     "mkfiletree": "^1.0.1",
-    "node-gyp": "^4.0.0",
+    "node-gyp": "^5.0.0",
     "nyc": "^14.0.0",
     "prebuildify": "^3.0.0",
     "prebuildify-ci": "^1.0.4",