diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6514ed94128a3a9e82545d74fa5eac8f920f122b..75586a4770efe2ed0137ccbb135ea279b852254d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ brltty (5.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     (Closes: Bug#869972).
   * patches/brldefs-install: Fix installing device-specific brldefs headers.
   * control: Migrate priority to optional.
-  * control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.1.
+  * control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0
 
  -- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:46:38 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c79ac81497355d90401a04ad306338533444f3a1..7439e4d33333c00bbd134183ba50356c279c116f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20150628), dh-lisp, dh-python, dh-systemd (>= 1.5
                libspeechd-dev,
                libespeak-ng-libespeak-dev
 Build-Conflicts: libatspi-dev
-Standards-Version: 4.0.1
+Standards-Version: 4.1.0
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.7
 X-Python3-Version: >= 3.2