diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 7725e08..b370163 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ git_repository(
 
 git_repository(
     name = "googletest_repo",
-    # commit = "b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb",  # 2019-01-04
-    commit = "9816b96a6ddc0430671693df90192bbee57108b6",  # 2017-08-11
+    commit = "b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb",  # 2019-01-04
     remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest.git",
 )