diff --git a/kvdb-rocksdb/Cargo.toml b/kvdb-rocksdb/Cargo.toml
index 5b44388d9..d2d947393 100644
--- a/kvdb-rocksdb/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kvdb-rocksdb/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ log = "0.4.8"
 num_cpus = "1.10.1"
 parking_lot = "0.11.1"
 regex = "1.3.1"
-rocksdb = { version = "0.15", features = ["snappy"], default-features = false }
+rocksdb = { version = "0.16", features = ["snappy"], default-features = false }
 owning_ref = "0.4.0"
 parity-util-mem = { path = "../parity-util-mem", version = "0.9", default-features = false, features = ["std", "smallvec"] }