diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c45920a..198ed99 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/diasdavid/node-libp2p-kad-routing",
   "dependencies": {
-    "async": "^1.4.0",
+    "async": "^2.0.1",
     "buffer-xor": "^1.0.2",
     "ipfs-logger": "^0.1.0",
     "js-priority-queue": "^0.1.2",
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index b7d5090..f4df74e 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 var KBucket = require('k-bucket')
-var async = require('async')
+var queue = require('async/queue')
 var log = require('ipfs-logger').group('peer-routing ipfs-kad-router')
 var protobufs = require('protocol-buffers-stream')
 var fs = require('fs')
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function KadRouter (peerSelf, swarmSelf, kBucketSize) {
 
     var peerList = {} // < b58Id : Peer >
 
-    var q = async.queue(queryPeer, 1)
+    var q = queue(queryPeer, 1)
 
     var closerPeers = self.kb.closest({
       id: key, // key must be an Id object exported with .toBytes()