diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f3dc0113..10bde1d0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "level-community": "^3.0.0",
     "level-concat-iterator": "^3.0.0",
     "mkfiletree": "^2.0.0",
-    "node-gyp": "^6.0.0",
+    "node-gyp": "^7.1.2",
     "nyc": "^15.0.0",
     "prebuildify": "^4.1.1",
     "prebuildify-ci": "^1.0.4",