diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 556d90d1..ec8d5e64 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-new_git_repository(
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git.bzl", "git_repository")
+
+git_repository(
     name = "googletest",
-    build_file = "gmock.BUILD",
     remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest",
-    tag = "release-1.8.0",
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+    tag = "release-1.8.1",
+)
diff --git a/gmock.BUILD b/gmock.BUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index 77e6eab4..00000000
--- a/gmock.BUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-cc_library(
-    name = "gtest",
-    srcs = [
-        "googletest/src/gtest-all.cc",
-        "googlemock/src/gmock-all.cc",
-    ],
-    hdrs = glob([
-        "**/*.h",
-        "googletest/src/*.cc",
-        "googlemock/src/*.cc",
-    ]),
-    includes = [
-        "googlemock",
-        "googletest",
-        "googletest/include",
-        "googlemock/include",
-    ],
-    linkopts = ["-pthread"],
-    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-)
-
-cc_library(
-    name = "gtest_main",
-    srcs = ["googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc"],
-    linkopts = ["-pthread"],
-    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-    deps = [":gtest"],
-)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/BUILD b/tests/BUILD
index 15fc11a4..1ddfa8f0 100644
--- a/tests/BUILD
+++ b/tests/BUILD
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ cc_test(
         "//src/lib:GreetingLib",
         "@googletest//:gtest_main",
     ],
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+)