diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 053f8ffee..c920b0d06 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6582,16 +6582,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
-version = "0.7.10"
+version = "0.7.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5419f34732d9eb6ee4c3578b7989078579b7f039cbbb9ca2c4da015749371e15"
+checksum = "9cf6b47b3771c49ac75ad09a6162f53ad4b8088b76ac60e8ec1455b31a189fe1"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-sink",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
- "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1afa6395a..a5c67eb7b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ 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
-tokio-util = "0.7.9"
+tokio-util = "0.7.11"
 toml = "0.8"
 url = "2"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index bfe1f122a..624641639 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["io-std"] }
-tokio-util = "0.7.9"
+tokio-util = "0.7.11"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }