diff --git a/qiita-markdown.gemspec b/qiita-markdown.gemspec
index 47e4920..ce5c0f0 100644
--- a/qiita-markdown.gemspec
+++ b/qiita-markdown.gemspec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 
   spec.add_dependency "addressable"
   spec.add_dependency "gemoji"
-  spec.add_dependency "github-linguist", "~> 7.0"
+  spec.add_dependency "github-linguist", ">= 7", "< 10"
   spec.add_dependency "html-pipeline", "~> 2.0"
   spec.add_dependency "mem"
   spec.add_dependency "qiita_marker", "~> 0.23.9"