diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c80c0ec..485918c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1437,9 +1437,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5fb2ed024293bb19f7a5dc54fe83bf86532a44c12a2bb8ba40d64a4509395ca2"
+checksum = "50dae83881bc9b0403dd5b44ea9deed3e939856cc8722d5be37f0d6e5c6d53dd"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 620d92b..868b29d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ fastcdc = "1.0"
 multibase = "0.9"
 async-trait = "0.1"
 speedy = "0.7.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.4", features = ["macros", "fs", "io-util", "sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["macros", "fs", "io-util", "sync"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1.3"
 async-recursion = "0.3.1"
 lru = "0.6.0"
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ replace_with = "0.1.7"
 proptest = "1.0"
 proptest-derive = "0.3"
 tempfile = "3.2.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.2.0", features = ["test-util", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8.4", features = ["test-util", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 criterion = { version = "0.3.4", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 
 [workspace]
diff --git a/fixi_cli/Cargo.toml b/fixi_cli/Cargo.toml
index 2c473f8..af71b21 100644
--- a/fixi_cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fixi_cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ default = []
 fixity = { path = "..", features = ["structopt"] }
 structopt = "0.3"
 env_logger = "0.7"
-tokio = { version = "1.4.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "io-std"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "io-std"] }
 thiserror = "1.0.21"
 log = "0.4.11"
diff --git a/git_fixi/Cargo.toml b/git_fixi/Cargo.toml
index ff7d94c..1bac616 100644
--- a/git_fixi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/git_fixi/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 fixity = { path = "..", features = ["structopt"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "io-std"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "io-std"] }
 structopt = "0.3"
 thiserror = "1.0.21"
 env_logger = "0.7"