diff --git a/public-traits/Cargo.toml b/public-traits/Cargo.toml
index d67d0921..d102a702 100644
--- a/public-traits/Cargo.toml
+++ b/public-traits/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ syncable = ["tolstoy_traits", "hyper", "serde_json"]
 failure = "~0.1"
 failure_derive = "~0.1"
 http = "~0.2"
-tokio = { version = "~0.2", features = ["rt-core"] }
+tokio = { version = "~1.8", features = ["rt-core"] }
 uuid = "~0.8"
 
 [dependencies.rusqlite]
diff --git a/tolstoy/Cargo.toml b/tolstoy/Cargo.toml
index 0d6b0b5c..79de28c7 100644
--- a/tolstoy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tolstoy/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ hyper-tls = "~0.5"
 http = "~0.2"
 log = "~0.4"
 mime = "~0.3"
-tokio = { version = "~0.2", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "~1.8", features = ["full"] }
 serde = "~1.0"
 serde_json = "~1.0"
 serde_cbor = "~0.11"