diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7d73ee076..53b052938 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 language: node_js
-node_js: "6"
+node_js: "8"
 
 before_install:
   # decrypting the encrypted SSH private key and adding the key to the current ssh-agent to make any SSH-based command agnostic to the private key location