diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 613f4c9eb..c0a12a955 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2167,9 +2167,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
-version = "0.4.14"
+version = "0.4.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "51b9bbe6c47d51fc3e1a9b945965946b4c44142ab8792c50835a980d362c2710"
+checksum = "6389c490849ff5bc16be905ae24bc913a9c8892e19b2341dbc175e14c341c2b8"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
  "value-bag",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 903841ac7..df75793b6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ image = { version = "0.24.1", default-features=false, features = ["gif", "jpeg",
 kamadak-exif = "0.5"
 lettre_email = { git = "https://github.com/deltachat/lettre", branch = "master" }
 libc = "0.2"
-log = {version = "0.4.8", optional = true }
+log = {version = "0.4.16", optional = true }
 mailparse = "0.13"
 native-tls = "0.2"
 num_cpus = "1.13"