diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0dcdc558d..67244e464 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6430,9 +6430,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.37.0"
+version = "1.38.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1adbebffeca75fcfd058afa480fb6c0b81e165a0323f9c9d39c9697e37c46787"
+checksum = "ba4f4a02a7a80d6f274636f0aa95c7e383b912d41fe721a31f29e29698585a4a"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
@@ -6459,9 +6459,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.2.0"
+version = "2.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5b8a1e28f2deaa14e508979454cb3a223b10b938b45af148bc0986de36f1923b"
+checksum = "5f5ae998a069d4b5aba8ee9dad856af7d520c3699e6159b185c2acd48155d39a"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 39e0df034..1afa6395a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ strum_macros = "0.26"
 tagger = "4.3.4"
 textwrap = "0.16.1"
 thiserror = "1"
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", 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
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 proptest = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 tempfile = "3"
 testdir = "0.9.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["parking_lot", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["parking_lot", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 pretty_assertions = "1.3.0"
 
 [workspace]
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 77ca144c2..4ba1ab058 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 human-panic = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 num-traits = "0.2"
 serde_json = "1.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 anyhow = "1"
 thiserror = "1"
 rand = "0.8"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 898a86065..33846f6cd 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ futures = { version = "0.3.30" }
 serde_json = "1"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 typescript-type-def = { version = "0.5.8", features = ["json_value"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0" }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0" }
 sanitize-filename = "0.5"
 walkdir = "2.5.0"
 base64 = "0.22"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ axum = { version = "0.7", optional = true, features = ["ws"] }
 env_logger = { version = "0.11.3", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 
 [features]
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index d616c2cd5..d57bebaa0 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dirs = "5"
 log = "0.4.21"
 rusqlite = "0.31"
 rustyline = "14"
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 2936f9a66..bfe1f122a 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ futures-lite = "2.3.0"
 log = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["io-std"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["io-std"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7.9"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }