diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index ddfda8af27..d567b31d94 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ gem "kramdown"
 gem "rake"
 ## To retrieve a list of contributors from GitHub
 gem "faraday-retry", "~> 2.2"
-gem "octokit", "~> 7.2"
+gem "octokit", "~> 8.0"
 ## To generate ERB files from ronn files from rubygems/rubygems
 gem "ronn-ng", github: "apjanke/ronn-ng"
 ## To strip (man:strip_pages)
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index e6109fef31..ba25de28fa 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ GEM
       racc (~> 1.4)
     nokogiri (1.15.4-x86_64-linux)
       racc (~> 1.4)
-    octokit (7.2.0)
+    octokit (8.0.0)
       faraday (>= 1, < 3)
       sawyer (~> 0.9)
     oj (3.13.23)
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   middleman-search!
   middleman-syntax
   nokogiri (~> 1.15)
-  octokit (~> 7.2)
+  octokit (~> 8.0)
   pry-byebug
   rake
   ronn-ng!