diff --git a/build/docker/ubuntu-xenial/Dockerfile b/build/docker/ubuntu-xenial/Dockerfile
index fbbe1c2..57c9964 100644
--- a/build/docker/ubuntu-xenial/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/docker/ubuntu-xenial/Dockerfile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # - dart: does not come with Ubuntu so we're installing 2.0.0-1 for coverage
 # - dotnet: does not come with Ubuntu
 # - go: Xenial comes with 1.6, but we need 1.10 or later
-# - nodejs: Xenial comes with 4.2.6 which exits LTS April 2018, so we're installing 6.x
+# - nodejs: Xenial comes with 4.2.6 which exits LTS April 2018, so we're installing 8.x
 # - ocaml: causes stack overflow error, just started March 2018 not sure why
 #
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 # node.js
     curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add - && \
-    echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x xenial main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
+    echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x xenial main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
 
 ### install general dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \