diff --git a/package.json.sample b/package.json.sample
index 390992210d56c..21b4b49867500 100644
--- a/package.json.sample
+++ b/package.json.sample
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   "homepage": "https://magento.com/",
   "devDependencies": {
     "glob": "~8.1.0",
-    "grunt": "~1.5.2",
+    "grunt": "~1.6.1",
     "grunt-banner": "~0.6.0",
     "grunt-continue": "~0.1.0",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "~2.0.0",