diff --git a/debian/patches/0396-relax-asciidoctor-plantuml.patch b/debian/patches/0396-relax-asciidoctor-plantuml.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1978bbba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0396-relax-asciidoctor-plantuml.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/18643
+
+--- a/Gemfile
++++ b/Gemfile
+@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
+ gem 'creole', '~> 0.5.0'
+ gem 'wikicloth', '0.8.1'
+ gem 'asciidoctor', '~> 1.5', '>= 1.5.2'
+-gem 'asciidoctor-plantuml', '0.0.7'
++gem 'asciidoctor-plantuml', '~> 0.0.7'
+ gem 'rouge', '~> 2.0'
+ gem 'truncato', '~> 0.7.9'
+ gem 'bootstrap_form', '~> 2.7'
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 676974a040..246a380d2e 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ pid-log-paths.patch
 0393-relax-kubeclient.patch
 0394-relax-grpc.patch
 0395-relax-grape-entity.patch
+0396-relax-asciidoctor-plantuml.patch
 0410-set-webpack-root.patch
 0415-remove-dev-dependencies.patch
 add-system-lib-path-for-webpack.patch