diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 16310813..ce5b68b6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'jsonschema~=2.5.1',
     'pyyaml>=4.2b1',
     'aiohttp~=3.0',
-    'bigchaindb-abci==0.6.0',
+    'bigchaindb-abci==0.6.1',
     'setproctitle~=1.1.0',
     'packaging~=18.0',
 ]