diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index f2b7ec1..e765e2d 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# UNRELEASED
+
+* update request dependency
+
 # 1.8.1 (2016-01-20)
 
 * fix bug w/ HostHeaderTransformer and binary data
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c01aba4..a3ddafd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
   "license": "MIT",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
-    "url": "git://github.com/shtylman/localtunnel.git"
+    "url": "git://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel.git"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "request": "2.65.0",
+    "request": "2.78.0",
     "yargs": "3.29.0",
     "debug": "2.2.0",
     "openurl": "1.1.0"
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@
     "lt": "./bin/client"
   },
   "main": "./client.js"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}