diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3a70a7f7b..005036275 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2217,6 +2217,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "digest 0.10.7",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "home"
+version = "0.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5444c27eef6923071f7ebcc33e3444508466a76f7a2b93da00ed6e19f30c1ddb"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hostname"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -4050,15 +4059,15 @@ checksum = "5583e89e108996506031660fe09baa5011b9dd0341b89029313006d1fb508d70"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustyline"
-version = "11.0.0"
+version = "12.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5dfc8644681285d1fb67a467fb3021bfea306b99b4146b166a1fe3ada965eece"
+checksum = "994eca4bca05c87e86e15d90fc7a91d1be64b4482b38cb2d27474568fe7c9db9"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "bitflags 2.0.2",
  "cfg-if",
  "clipboard-win",
- "dirs-next",
  "fd-lock",
+ "home",
  "libc",
  "log",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 64fae3d67..10babc2f8 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dirs = "5"
 log = "0.4.19"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 rusqlite = "0.29"
-rustyline = "11"
+rustyline = "12"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 
 [features]