diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index af48dbb71..89e1259db 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -202,12 +202,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-global-executor"
-version = "1.4.3"
+version = "2.0.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "73079b49cd26b8fd5a15f68fc7707fc78698dc2a3d61430f2a7a9430230dfa04"
+checksum = "9586ec52317f36de58453159d48351bc244bc24ced3effc1fce22f3d48664af6"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-channel",
  "async-executor",
  "async-io",
+ "async-mutex",
+ "blocking",
  "futures-lite",
  "num_cpus",
  "once_cell",
@@ -233,9 +236,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-imap"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0bdc2bb91844456110d27da8f712f4cbc693f3538521a43cb79c6b2e6f717f3e"
+checksum = "bbb2df4b37a99456360a9ab475b723e3a499d51e060ab1bdd8d7565d23dcb74b"
 dependencies = [
  "async-native-tls",
  "async-std",
@@ -273,6 +276,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-lock"
+version = "2.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e6a8ea61bf9947a1007c5cada31e647dbc77b103c679858150003ba697ea798b"
+dependencies = [
+ "event-listener",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-mutex"
 version = "1.4.0"
@@ -334,17 +346,16 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-std"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8f9f84f1280a2b436a2c77c2582602732b6c2f4321d5494d6e799e6c367859a8"
+checksum = "d9f06685bad74e0570f5213741bea82158279a4103d988e57bfada11ad230341"
 dependencies = [
  "async-attributes",
  "async-channel",
  "async-global-executor",
  "async-io",
- "async-mutex",
+ "async-lock",
  "async-process",
- "blocking",
  "crossbeam-utils 0.8.3",
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-core",
@@ -356,7 +367,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
  "num_cpus",
  "once_cell",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "pin-utils",
  "slab",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
@@ -1602,7 +1613,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-io",
  "memchr",
  "parking",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "waker-fn",
 ]
 
@@ -1643,7 +1654,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-sink",
  "futures-task",
  "memchr",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "pin-utils",
  "proc-macro-hack",
  "proc-macro-nested",
@@ -1841,7 +1852,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cookie",
  "futures-lite",
  "infer",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "rand 0.7.3",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -2613,12 +2624,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "pin-project-lite"
-version = "0.1.12"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "257b64915a082f7811703966789728173279bdebb956b143dbcd23f6f970a777"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project-lite"
 version = "0.2.6"
@@ -3504,12 +3509,12 @@ checksum = "213701ba3370744dcd1a12960caa4843b3d68b4d1c0a5d575e0d65b2ee9d16c0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "stop-token"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "06855fb7c94d3be9b3a57c4d82dfc8a43bb658fbb3b1dda79de89e748d9eb9dd"
+checksum = "2d5e0f9b25bdd9bf18e33d1f4dd0194c77034b66b4a4842b0bf7f5cf53ca733a"
 dependencies = [
  "async-std",
- "pin-project-lite 0.1.12",
+ "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3566,7 +3571,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "http-types",
  "log",
  "mime_guess",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
 ]
@@ -3727,7 +3732,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "134af885d758d645f0f0505c9a8b3f9bf8a348fd822e112ab5248138348f1722"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg 1.0.1",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.6",
+ "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 509524499..f2793d3fa 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ deltachat_derive = { path = "./deltachat_derive" }
 
 ansi_term = { version = "0.12.1", optional = true }
 anyhow = "1.0.40"
-async-imap = "0.4.0"
+async-imap = "0.5.0"
 async-native-tls = { version = "0.3.3" }
 async-smtp = { git = "https://github.com/async-email/async-smtp", rev="2275fd8d13e39b2c58d6605c786ff06ff9e05708" }
 async-std-resolver = "0.20.2"
-async-std = { version = "~1.8.0", features = ["unstable"] }
+async-std = { version = "~1.9.0", features = ["unstable"] }
 async-tar = "0.3.0"
 async-trait = "0.1.50"
 backtrace = "0.3.58"
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 sha-1 = "0.9.3"
 sha2 = "0.9.0"
 smallvec = "1.0.0"
-stop-token = { version = "0.1.1", features = ["unstable"] }
+stop-token = "0.2.0"
 strum = "0.20.0"
 strum_macros = "0.20.1"
 surf = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.4", default-features = false, features = ["h1-client"] }
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ uuid = { version = "0.8", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 ansi_term = "0.12.0"
-async-std = { version = "1.6.4", features = ["unstable", "attributes"] }
+async-std = { version = "1.9.0", features = ["unstable", "attributes"] }
 criterion = "0.3"
 futures-lite = "1.7.0"
 log = "0.4.11"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index f5cca8af0..f54a3cc00 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 = "1.6.0"
+async-std = "1.9.0"
 anyhow = "1.0.40"
 thiserror = "1.0.14"
 rand = "0.7.3"