diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0eeeb1a..66c7da3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "*",
     "load-grunt-tasks": "^3.1.0",
     "time-grunt": "^1.0.0",
-    "bower": "1.4.1"
+    "bower": ">=1.8.8"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.10.0"