diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-react-docgen/package.json b/packages/gatsby-transformer-react-docgen/package.json
index 58983e720d156..43da114b275f5 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-react-docgen/package.json
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-react-docgen/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "babel-types": "^6.24.1",
     "common-tags": "^1.4.0",
     "graphql-type-json": "^0.1.4",
-    "react-docgen": "^2.15.0"
+    "react-docgen": "^5.2.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "babel-cli": "^6.26.0",