diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7b2b737..bcc62da 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -787,9 +787,9 @@ checksum = "cda74da7e1a664f795bb1f8a87ec406fb89a02522cf6e50620d016add6dbbf5c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5fb2ed024293bb19f7a5dc54fe83bf86532a44c12a2bb8ba40d64a4509395ca2"
+checksum = "98c8b05dc14c75ea83d63dd391100353789f5f24b8b3866542a5e85c8be8e985"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5b32cbe..bc731d7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ log = { version = "0.4" }
 sha-1 = "0.9"
 simplelog = "0.9.0"
 uuid = { version = "0.8", features = ["v4"] }
-tokio = { version  = "1.7", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version  = "1.8", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-postgres = "0.7"
 url = "2.2"