diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 1dfdd67..7725e08 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 workspace(name = "media_cas_packager_sdk")
+
 load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git.bzl", "new_git_repository", "git_repository")
 
 # CCTZ (Time-zone framework), needed by abseil.
@@ -34,7 +35,8 @@ git_repository(
 
 git_repository(
     name = "googletest_repo",
-    commit = "b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb",  # 2019-01-04
+    # commit = "b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb",  # 2019-01-04
+    commit = "9816b96a6ddc0430671693df90192bbee57108b6",  # 2017-08-11
     remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest.git",
 )