diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index 1335ae70623b5..1b0f46be0254f 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS = dict(
         urls = ["https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-boringssl-docs/fips/boringssl-66005f41fbc3529ffe8d007708756720529da20d.tar.xz"],
     ),
     com_google_absl = dict(
-        sha256 = "7ddf863ddced6fa5bf7304103f9c7aa619c20a2fcf84475512c8d3834b9d14fa",
-        strip_prefix = "abseil-cpp-61c9bf3e3e1c28a4aa6d7f1be4b37fd473bb5529",
-        # 2019-06-05
-        urls = ["https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/61c9bf3e3e1c28a4aa6d7f1be4b37fd473bb5529.tar.gz"],
+        sha256 = "3df5970908ed9a09ba51388d04661803a6af18c373866f442cede7f381e0b94a",
+        strip_prefix = "abseil-cpp-14550beb3b7b97195e483fb74b5efb906395c31e",
+        # 2019-07-31
+        urls = ["https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/14550beb3b7b97195e483fb74b5efb906395c31e.tar.gz"],
     ),
     com_github_apache_thrift = dict(
         sha256 = "7d59ac4fdcb2c58037ebd4a9da5f9a49e3e034bf75b3f26d9fe48ba3d8806e6b",