diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4d4adb3f..5ef5868c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     "level-community": "^3.0.0",
     "level-concat-iterator": "^2.0.0",
     "mkfiletree": "^2.0.0",
-    "node-gyp": "^5.0.0",
+    "node-gyp": "^6.0.0",
     "nyc": "^14.0.0",
     "prebuildify": "^3.0.0",
     "prebuildify-ci": "^1.0.4",