diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b7bd65f221..74b4e9fd42 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  openssh-client,
  bzip2,
  ucf,
- gitlab-workhorse (>= 7.6~),
+ gitlab-workhorse (>= 8.5.2~),
  ruby-rails (>= 2:5.2.0~),
  ruby-rails-deprecated-sanitizer (>= 1.0.3~),
  ruby-nakayoshi-fork (>= 0.0.4~),
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  adduser (>= 3.34~),
  git (>= 1:2.18~),
  ucf,
- gitlab-shell (>= 8.4.4~)
+ gitlab-shell (>= 9.1.0~)
 Description: git powered software platform to collaborate on code (common)
  gitlab provides web based interface to host source code and track issues.
  It allows anyone for fork a repository and send merge requests. Code review