diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dc583be92..d657a5c4e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ strum_macros = "0.26"
 tagger = "4.3.4"
 textwrap = "0.16.1"
 thiserror = "1"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.15", features = ["fs"] }
 tokio-tar = { version = "0.3" } # TODO: integrate tokio into async-tar
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 6d5624f6e..014567cf9 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 human-panic = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 num-traits = "0.2"
 serde_json = "1.0"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 anyhow = "1"
 thiserror = "1"
 rand = "0.8"