diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 375ee76d975ec1a2eb41a5df81940b0ac458f896..c2e8eb3ef5bda515600cf06d3a8137ffa476ec23 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ gem "tzinfo-data", platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
 # Performance-booster for watching directories on Windows
 gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.0" if Gem.win_platform?
 
+# Pin faraday to 0.17.3, otherwise there's a build error caused by version 4.14 of octokit
+gem 'faraday', '0.17.3'