diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 7ab12ba94ce3f2..b95823a237092f 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.5',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.6',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####