diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index dc7a6fc..42b9fd6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: d3r
 Type: Package
 Title: 'd3.js' Utilities for R
-Version: 0.6.8
-Date: 2017-08-07
+Version: 0.6.9
+Date: 2017-08-20
 Authors@R: c(
       person(
         "Mike", "Bostock"
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Imports: dplyr,
           htmltools,
-          tidyr
+          tidyr (>= 0.7.0)
 Suggests: jsonlite,
           listviewer,
           purrr,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 28d5f46..8666e13 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# d3r 0.6.9
+
+### Updates
+
+* modify `d3_nest()` to work with new tidyr.
+
 # d3r 0.6.8
 
 ### Updates
diff --git a/R/hierarchy.R b/R/hierarchy.R
index 2fd883f..39a2861 100644
--- a/R/hierarchy.R
+++ b/R/hierarchy.R
@@ -82,15 +82,18 @@ d3_nest <- function(
   stopifnot(!is.null(data), inherits(data, "data.frame"))
   nonnest_cols <- dplyr::setdiff(colnames(data),value_cols)
 
+  # looks like new tidyr requires tibble to nest correctly
+  data <- dplyr::as_tibble(data)
+
   # convert factor to character
   data <- dplyr::mutate_if(data, is.factor, as.character)
 
   data_nested <- dplyr::bind_rows(promote_na(
     change_to_name(
-      tidyr::nest_(
+      tidyr::nest(
         data=data,
-        nest_cols=c(nonnest_cols[length(nonnest_cols)], value_cols),
-        key_col="children"
+        dplyr::one_of(c(nonnest_cols[length(nonnest_cols)], value_cols)),
+        .key="children"
       )
     )
   ))
@@ -102,10 +105,10 @@ d3_nest <- function(
   )){
     data_nested <- dplyr::bind_rows(promote_na(
       change_to_name(
-        tidyr::nest_(
+        tidyr::nest(
           data_nested,
-          nest_cols = colnames(data_nested)[colnames(data_nested) %in% c(x,"children",value_cols)],
-          key_col = "children"
+          dplyr::one_of(colnames(data_nested)[colnames(data_nested) %in% c(x,"children",value_cols)]),
+          .key = "children"
         )
       )
     ))