diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e08f1cdde..0a7777605 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         "source": "https://github.com/octobercms/october"
     },
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=7.0",
+        "php": ">=7.0.8",
         "ext-mbstring": "*",
         "ext-openssl": "*",
         "october/rain": "~1.0",
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     "config": {
         "preferred-install": "dist",
         "platform": {
-            "php": "7.0"
+            "php": "7.0.8"
         }
     },
     "minimum-stability": "dev",