diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4edf997..987f02e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     "grunt-shell": "~1.1.1",
     "grunt-parallel": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-contrib-compress": "~0.13.0",
-    "bower": "~1.4.1",
+    "bower": "~1.8.8",
     "karma-jasmine": "~0.3.4",
     "karma-firefox-launcher": "~0.1.3",
     "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.2.0",