diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 5b598b379..a97241340 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ gem "acts_as_follower", github: "forem/acts_as_follower", branch: "master" # All
 gem "addressable", "~> 2.8" # A replacement for the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library
 gem "ahoy_email", "~> 2.1.2" # Email analytics for Rails
 gem "ahoy_matey", "~> 4.0" # Tracking analytics for Rails
-gem "ancestry", "~> 4.1" # Ancestry allows the records of a ActiveRecord model to be organized in a tree structure
+gem "ancestry", "~> 4.2" # Ancestry allows the records of a ActiveRecord model to be organized in a tree structure
 gem "blazer", "~> 2.6" # Allows admins to query data
 gem "bootsnap", ">= 1.1.0", require: false # Boot large ruby/rails apps faster
 gem "carrierwave", "~> 2.2" # Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them to a range of ORMs, store them on different backends
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 5b6639750..379e7d5c1 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ GEM
       device_detector
       safely_block (>= 0.2.1)
     amazing_print (1.4.0)
-    ancestry (4.1.0)
+    ancestry (4.2.0)
       activerecord (>= 5.2.6)
     anyway_config (2.1.0)
       ruby-next-core (>= 0.11.0)
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   ahoy_email (~> 2.1.2)
   ahoy_matey (~> 4.0)
   amazing_print (~> 1.4)
-  ancestry (~> 4.1)
+  ancestry (~> 4.2)
   better_errors (~> 2.9)
   blazer (~> 2.6)
   bootsnap (>= 1.1.0)
diff --git a/vendor/cache/ancestry-4.1.0.gem b/vendor/cache/ancestry-4.1.0.gem
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diff --git a/vendor/cache/ancestry-4.2.0.gem b/vendor/cache/ancestry-4.2.0.gem
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