diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd722d4ad7d..3af7d4ffe13 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Make sure you activated the full features of the tokio crate on Cargo.toml:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.5.0", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.6.1", features = ["full"] }
 ```
 Then, on your main.rs: