diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 7f87a8cc1fea13..ba8745c77ae112 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.30',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.31',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####
 
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/parsing/parser.cc b/deps/v8/src/parsing/parser.cc
index edb9604bb5cfd1..a05884adc0d2d2 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/parsing/parser.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/src/parsing/parser.cc
@@ -503,7 +503,6 @@ FunctionLiteral* Parser::ParseProgram(Isolate* isolate, ParseInfo* info) {
                         Scope::DeserializationMode::kIncludingVariables);
 
   scanner_.Initialize();
-  scanner_.SkipHashBang();
   FunctionLiteral* result = DoParseProgram(isolate, info);
   MaybeResetCharacterStream(info, result);
   MaybeProcessSourceRanges(info, result, stack_limit_);
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/parsing/preparser.cc b/deps/v8/src/parsing/preparser.cc
index 67ee1930accaca..c25ed2f8dd4cb8 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/parsing/preparser.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/src/parsing/preparser.cc
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ PreParser::PreParseResult PreParser::PreParseProgram() {
   scope->set_is_being_lazily_parsed(true);
 #endif
 
-  // Note: We should only skip the hashbang in non-Eval scripts
-  // (currently, Eval is not handled by the PreParser).
-  scanner()->SkipHashBang();
-
   // ModuleDeclarationInstantiation for Source Text Module Records creates a
   // new Module Environment Record whose outer lexical environment record is
   // the global scope.
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner-inl.h b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner-inl.h
index b76076d92ffaaa..53b53cb9981259 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner-inl.h
+++ b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner-inl.h
@@ -505,6 +505,10 @@ V8_INLINE Token::Value Scanner::ScanSingleToken() {
           return ScanTemplateSpan();
 
         case Token::PRIVATE_NAME:
+          if (source_pos() == 0 && Peek() == '!') {
+            token = SkipSingleLineComment();
+            continue;
+          }
           return ScanPrivateName();
 
         case Token::WHITESPACE:
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.cc b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.cc
index 28e43747874605..d444719f638906 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.cc
@@ -314,13 +314,6 @@ Token::Value Scanner::SkipMultiLineComment() {
   return Token::ILLEGAL;
 }
 
-void Scanner::SkipHashBang() {
-  if (c0_ == '#' && Peek() == '!' && source_pos() == 0) {
-    SkipSingleLineComment();
-    Scan();
-  }
-}
-
 Token::Value Scanner::ScanHtmlComment() {
   // Check for <!-- comments.
   DCHECK_EQ(c0_, '!');
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.h b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.h
index d9216f222a051b..871204bb55de87 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.h
+++ b/deps/v8/src/parsing/scanner.h
@@ -421,9 +421,6 @@ class V8_EXPORT_PRIVATE Scanner {
 
   const Utf16CharacterStream* stream() const { return source_; }
 
-  // If the next characters in the stream are "#!", the line is skipped.
-  void SkipHashBang();
-
  private:
   // Scoped helper for saving & restoring scanner error state.
   // This is used for tagged template literals, in which normally forbidden
diff --git a/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.js b/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b3aab937db7c32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env d8
+// Copyright 2015 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+//
+//
+
+const x = 'valid code';
+
+'incomplete string
+
+const y = 'even more valid code!';
diff --git a/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.out b/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..db85fe06a69d8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/v8/test/message/fail/hashbang-incomplete-string.out
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+*%(basename)s:10: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
+'incomplete string
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token