diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
index 5eb7c562..34bef774 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tryCatch(skip = function(e) message(conditionMessage(e)), {
     RSQLite::SQLite(),
     list(dbname = tempfile("DBItest", fileext = ".sqlite")),
     tweaks = DBItest::tweaks(
-      dbitest_version = "1.8.0.50",
+      dbitest_version = "1.8.1",
       constructor_relax_args = TRUE,
       placeholder_pattern = c("?", "$1", "$name", ":name"),
       date_cast = function(x) paste0("'", x, "'"),