diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7a1bf41d..54091972 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Released 2015-mm-dd
 
 Announcements:
- - Upgrades windshaft to [1.3.0](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft/releases/tag/1.3.0)
+ - Upgrades windshaft to [1.4.0](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft/releases/tag/1.4.0)
 
 
 ## 2.16.0
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 87ecf331..dfde0fa5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         "node-statsd": "~0.0.7",
         "underscore"  : "~1.6.0",
         "dot": "~1.0.2",
-        "windshaft": "~1.3.0",
+        "windshaft": "~1.4.0",
         "step": "~0.0.6",
         "queue-async": "~1.0.7",
         "request": "~2.62.0",