diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index a6d2a5b8..3639ecfe 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ gem 'jekyll-coffeescript', '~> 1.0'
 gem 'jekyll-feed'
 gem 'jekyll-gist', '~> 1.0'
 gem 'mime-types', '~> 2.6'
-gem 'kramdown', '~> 1.8.0'
+gem 'kramdown', '~> 1.9'
 
 platform :ruby, :mswin, :mingw do
   gem 'rdiscount', '~> 2.0'