diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 4a1c18aa52..3ef1ffc090 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-ci-release" % "1.6.1")
 
 // write markdown files with type-checked Scala
 //https://github.com/scalameta/mdoc
-addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-mdoc" % "2.6.0")
+addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-mdoc" % "2.6.1")
 
 //https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-scalafmt
 addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-scalafmt" % "2.5.2")