diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e1eed680..bac34e27 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2bd12c1caf447e69cd4528f47f94d203fd2582878ecb9e9465484c4148a8223"
+checksum = "514de17de45fdb8dc022b1a7975556c53c86f9f0aa5f534b98977b171857c2c9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bzip2-sys"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 56087707..5ad370b4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ cyborgtime = "2.1.1"
 
 # all the web/HTTP dependencies
 # Used for the http request / response body type for Ruma endpoints used with reqwest
-bytes = "1.5.0"
+bytes = "1.6.0"
 http = "0.2.12"
 
 # Web framework