diff --git a/debian/patches/0006-loosen-grape.patch b/debian/patches/0006-loosen-grape.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ef4b66225
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0006-loosen-grape.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Forwarded: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2761
+
+Index: gitlab/Gemfile
+===================================================================
+--- gitlab.orig/Gemfile
++++ gitlab/Gemfile
+@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ gem 'gollum-lib', '~> 4.0.2'
+ gem "gitlab-linguist", "~> 3.0.1", require: "linguist"
+ 
+ # API
+-gem "grape", "~> 0.6.1"
++gem "grape", "~> 0.6"
+ gem "grape-entity", "~> 0.4.2"
+ gem 'rack-cors', require: 'rack/cors'
+ 
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 5e279d782c..84e9310357 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ loosen-rails-version.patch
 0003-loosen-doorkeeper.patch
 0004-loosen-rack-oauth2.patch
 0005-use-debian-omniauth-ldap.patch
+0006-loosen-grape.patch