diff --git a/examples/custom-libp2p/package.json b/examples/custom-libp2p/package.json
index 3936c08b..cb706270 100644
--- a/examples/custom-libp2p/package.json
+++ b/examples/custom-libp2p/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "@libp2p/mplex": "^5.2.0",
     "@libp2p/tcp": "^3.0.6",
     "ipfs-core": "^0.16.0",
-    "libp2p": "^0.39.0",
+    "libp2p": "^0.42.0",
     "uint8arrays": "^3.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {