diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e30dd7bdb1..c717775506 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
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 		"divineomega/password_exposed": "^2.4",
 		"ezyang/htmlpurifier": "~4.7.0",
-		"league/html-to-markdown": "~4.4.1",
+		"league/html-to-markdown": "~4.8.0",
 		"lightopenid/lightopenid": "dev-master",
 		"michelf/php-markdown": "^1.7",
 		"mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib": "2.8.*",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index fca91452ef..b0ff745c68 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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+    "content-hash": "5f6a43237dc52758484cd21cd76e8ce6",
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             "name": "asika/simple-console",
@@ -483,16 +483,16 @@
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         {
             "name": "league/html-to-markdown",
-            "version": "4.4.1",
+            "version": "4.8.0",
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                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown.git",
-                "reference": "82ea375b5b2b1da1da222644c0565c695bf88186"
+                "reference": "f9a879a068c68ff47b722de63f58bec79e448f9d"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/thephpleague/html-to-markdown/zipball/82ea375b5b2b1da1da222644c0565c695bf88186",
-                "reference": "82ea375b5b2b1da1da222644c0565c695bf88186",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/thephpleague/html-to-markdown/zipball/f9a879a068c68ff47b722de63f58bec79e448f9d",
+                "reference": "f9a879a068c68ff47b722de63f58bec79e448f9d",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
             "type": "library",
             "extra": {
                 "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "4.5-dev"
+                    "dev-master": "4.9-dev"
                 }
             },
             "autoload": {
@@ -524,17 +524,17 @@
                 "MIT"
             ],
             "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "Colin O'Dell",
-                    "email": "colinodell@gmail.com",
-                    "homepage": "http://www.colinodell.com",
-                    "role": "Lead Developer"
-                },
                 {
                     "name": "Nick Cernis",
                     "email": "nick@cern.is",
                     "homepage": "http://modernnerd.net",
                     "role": "Original Author"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Colin O'Dell",
+                    "email": "colinodell@gmail.com",
+                    "homepage": "https://www.colinodell.com",
+                    "role": "Lead Developer"
                 }
             ],
             "description": "An HTML-to-markdown conversion helper for PHP",
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
                 "html",
                 "markdown"
             ],
-            "time": "2017-03-16T00:45:59+00:00"
+            "time": "2018-09-18T12:18:08+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "lightopenid/lightopenid",