diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index fd7570a80ae..e7cf23a1593 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ closure_repositories()
 # files, in case the parsing of those build files depends on the bazel
 # version we require here.
 load("//tensorflow:version_check.bzl", "check_bazel_version_at_least")
-check_bazel_version_at_least("0.10.0")
+check_bazel_version_at_least("0.13.0")
 
 load("//tensorflow:workspace.bzl", "tf_workspace")
 
diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
index 60fe54b2f61..251bebc2e17 100644
--- a/configure.py
+++ b/configure.py
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ def main():
   # environment variables.
   environ_cp = dict(os.environ)
 
-  check_bazel_version('0.10.0')
+  check_bazel_version('0.13.0')
 
   reset_tf_configure_bazelrc(args.workspace)
   cleanup_makefile()