diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 286558f47..1fbb3668f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     "ipfs-unixfs": "~0.1.16",
     "ipfs-utils": "~0.0.3",
     "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.13.1",
-    "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.15.3",
+    "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.17.1",
     "is-ipfs": "~0.6.0",
     "is-plain-object": "^3.0.0",
     "libp2p-crypto": "~0.16.0",