diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2d2ba525f..dce0f44b8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "axum",
  "base64 0.21.0",
  "deltachat",
- "env_logger 0.10.0",
+ "env_logger",
  "futures",
  "log",
  "num-traits",
@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
  "deltachat-jsonrpc",
- "env_logger 0.10.0",
+ "env_logger",
  "futures-lite",
  "log",
  "serde",
@@ -1791,26 +1791,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 1.0.109",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "env_logger"
-version = "0.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "44533bbbb3bb3c1fa17d9f2e4e38bbbaf8396ba82193c4cb1b6445d711445d36"
-dependencies = [
- "atty",
- "humantime 1.3.0",
- "log",
- "regex",
- "termcolor",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "env_logger"
 version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "85cdab6a89accf66733ad5a1693a4dcced6aeff64602b634530dd73c1f3ee9f0"
 dependencies = [
- "humantime 2.1.0",
+ "humantime",
  "is-terminal",
  "log",
  "regex",
@@ -2354,15 +2341,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libm 0.2.6",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "humantime"
-version = "1.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "df004cfca50ef23c36850aaaa59ad52cc70d0e90243c3c7737a4dd32dc7a3c4f"
-dependencies = [
- "quick-error 1.2.3",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "humantime"
 version = "2.1.0"
@@ -3589,11 +3567,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pretty_env_logger"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "926d36b9553851b8b0005f1275891b392ee4d2d833852c417ed025477350fb9d"
+checksum = "865724d4dbe39d9f3dd3b52b88d859d66bcb2d6a0acfd5ea68a65fb66d4bdc1c"
 dependencies = [
- "env_logger 0.7.1",
+ "env_logger",
  "log",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d71352848..bdd8c7635 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ once_cell = "1.17.0"
 percent-encoding = "2.2"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 pgp = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
-pretty_env_logger = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
+pretty_env_logger = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 qrcodegen = "1.7.0"
 quick-xml = "0.28"
 rand = "0.8"
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ ansi_term = "0.12.0"
 criterion = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 futures-lite = "1.13"
 log = "0.4"
-pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
+pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 proptest = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 tempfile = "3"
 testdir = "0.7.3"
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index f0c06d7c0..88285999d 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ anyhow = "1"
 deltachat = { path = "..", features = ["internals"]}
 dirs = "5"
 log = "0.4.18"
-pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
+pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 rusqlite = "0.29"
 rustyline = "11"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 91a21cf19..aadc55123 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -28,10 +28,8 @@ skip = [
      { name = "digest", version = "<0.10" },
      { name = "ed25519-dalek", version = "1.0.1" },
      { name = "ed25519", version = "1.5.3" },
-     { name = "env_logger", version = "<0.10" },
      { name = "getrandom", version = "<0.2" },
      { name = "hermit-abi", version = "<0.3" },
-     { name = "humantime", version = "<2.1" },
      { name = "idna", version = "<0.3" },
      { name = "libm", version = "0.1.4" },
      { name = "pem-rfc7468", version = "0.6.0" },