diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index af5098d8981..05b74291032 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.8',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.9',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####