diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 10a2720a7b5a69d5c6e204007a780678e63cd8e1..175823b82510b43af28970527686fe5ac22a2eda 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         "drupal/ds": "^3.1",
         "drupal/elastic_email": "^2.1",
         "drupal/entity": "^1.0-beta1",
-        "drupal/extlink": "^1.0",
+        "drupal/extlink": "1.x-dev",
         "drupal/field_group": "^3.0-beta1",
         "drupal/honeypot": "^1.27",
         "drupal/linkit": "^5.0",