diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 0f6f82bffe..077eec931b 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ unreleased
   * deps: content-type@~1.0.4
     - perf: remove argument reassignment
     - perf: skip parameter parsing when no parameters
+  * deps: etag@~1.8.1
+    - perf: replace regular expression with substring
   * deps: setprototypeof@1.1.0
 
 4.15.5 / 2017-09-24
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5febf1048e..78834c5072 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     "depd": "~1.1.1",
     "encodeurl": "~1.0.1",
     "escape-html": "~1.0.3",
-    "etag": "~1.8.0",
+    "etag": "~1.8.1",
     "finalhandler": "~1.0.6",
     "fresh": "0.5.2",
     "merge-descriptors": "1.0.1",