diff --git a/core/frontend/services/themes/validate.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/validate.js
index dd95224f02..e81da7eaec 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/themes/validate.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/themes/validate.js
@@ -17,16 +17,20 @@ const check = function check(theme, isZip) {
 
     if (isZip) {
         checkPromise = gscan.checkZip(theme, {
-            keepExtractedDir: true
+            keepExtractedDir: true,
+            checkVersion: 'canary'
         });
     } else {
-        checkPromise = gscan.check(theme.path);
+        checkPromise = gscan.check(theme.path, {
+            checkVersion: 'canary'
+        });
     }
 
     return checkPromise
         .then(function resultHandler(checkedTheme) {
             checkedTheme = gscan.format(checkedTheme, {
-                onlyFatalErrors: config.get('env') === 'production'
+                onlyFatalErrors: config.get('env') === 'production',
+                checkVersion: 'canary'
             });
 
             return checkedTheme;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 182c459ece..01964de902 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
     "ghost-storage-base": "0.0.3",
     "glob": "7.1.4",
     "got": "9.6.0",
-    "gscan": "2.7.0",
+    "gscan": "2.8.0",
     "html-to-text": "5.1.1",
     "image-size": "0.7.5",
     "intl": "1.2.5",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 83c8ba6a29..fbef9aa878 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3674,10 +3674,10 @@ grunt@1.0.4:
     path-is-absolute "~1.0.0"
     rimraf "~2.6.2"
 
-gscan@2.7.0:
-  version "2.7.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/gscan/-/gscan-2.7.0.tgz#c4ae05a4ca4ac9f178b060622b3531b39024bee4"
-  integrity sha512-FiweUbRoaVp9v8tVYsMKKoJWh3ycBIA/kev4YOgO4SwPEbYVk90MXTuvdp9pzUXwaJ+3BR76foBOkCNRnQgUgw==
+gscan@2.8.0:
+  version "2.8.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/gscan/-/gscan-2.8.0.tgz#e17cde875a0f4404588d52e7c60829b09c158ff9"
+  integrity sha512-kPHdwO6zkiRXdM/WvnsKQigjohZCtadfJMiqcX1LvnAx2VmvLwXpORgVjjHajXeZqB7XAPFdsQoKtlrEMgc6lQ==
   dependencies:
     "@tryghost/extract-zip" "1.6.6"
     "@tryghost/pretty-cli" "1.2.1"