diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8a68a3271..7d8fd80d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -346,9 +346,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-std"
-version = "1.9.0"
+version = "1.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d9f06685bad74e0570f5213741bea82158279a4103d988e57bfada11ad230341"
+checksum = "f8056f1455169ab86dd47b47391e4ab0cbd25410a70e9fe675544f49bafaf952"
 dependencies = [
  "async-attributes",
  "async-channel",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 980b8349e..c8ddaa1e5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ async-imap = { git = "https://github.com/async-email/async-imap" }
 async-native-tls = { version = "0.3.3" }
 async-smtp = { git = "https://github.com/async-email/async-smtp", branch="master", features = ["socks5"] }
 async-std-resolver = "0.20.3"
-async-std = { version = "~1.9.0", features = ["unstable"] }
+async-std = { version = "~1.10.0", features = ["unstable"] }
 async-tar = "0.3.0"
 async-trait = "0.1.51"
 backtrace = "0.3.59"
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ humansize = "1.1.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 ansi_term = "0.12.0"
-async-std = { version = "1.9.0", features = ["unstable", "attributes"] }
+async-std = { version = "1.10.0", features = ["unstable", "attributes"] }
 criterion = "0.3"
 futures-lite = "1.12.0"
 log = "0.4.11"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 24d2ad95b..6ef58ebb4 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 human-panic = "1.0.1"
 num-traits = "0.2.6"
 serde_json = "1.0"
-async-std = "1.9.0"
+async-std = "1.10.0"
 anyhow = "1.0.43"
 thiserror = "1.0.26"
 rand = "0.7.3"