diff --git a/.stylelintrc.yml b/.stylelintrc.yml
index 93955a9d..10bd8e75 100644
--- a/.stylelintrc.yml
+++ b/.stylelintrc.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ rules:
     function-url-quotes: never
     no-eol-whitespace: null
     font-family-name-quotes: always-unless-keyword
+    rule-nested-empty-line-before: never-multi-line
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8204aae8..132ef0d1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
     "redrun": "^5.0.0",
     "shortdate": "^1.0.1",
     "stylelint": "^7.0.2",
-    "stylelint-config-standard": "^11.0.0",
+    "stylelint-config-standard": "^12.0.0",
     "tape": "^4.4.0",
     "version-io": "^1.2.5",
     "yaspeller": "^2.6.0"