diff --git a/substrate/Cargo.lock b/substrate/Cargo.lock
index 871b0f60d7..6e7c108582 100644
--- a/substrate/Cargo.lock
+++ b/substrate/Cargo.lock
@@ -8338,7 +8338,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "secrecy",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
- "sha2 0.8.2",
+ "sha2 0.9.2",
  "sp-debug-derive",
  "sp-externalities",
  "sp-runtime-interface",
diff --git a/substrate/primitives/core/Cargo.toml b/substrate/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
index de06ecd87e..50c57e068d 100644
--- a/substrate/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/substrate/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ed25519-dalek = { version = "1.0.1", default-features = false, features = ["u64_
 blake2-rfc = { version = "0.2.18", default-features = false, optional = true }
 tiny-keccak = { version = "2.0.1", features = ["keccak"], optional = true }
 schnorrkel = { version = "0.9.1", features = ["preaudit_deprecated", "u64_backend"], default-features = false, optional = true }
-sha2 = { version = "0.8.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
+sha2 = { version = "0.9.2", default-features = false, optional = true }
 hex = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, optional = true }
 twox-hash = { version = "1.5.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 libsecp256k1 = { version = "0.3.2", default-features = false, features = ["hmac"], optional = true }
diff --git a/substrate/primitives/core/src/hashing.rs b/substrate/primitives/core/src/hashing.rs
index 8a4c5191dd..0b67d33235 100644
--- a/substrate/primitives/core/src/hashing.rs
+++ b/substrate/primitives/core/src/hashing.rs
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ pub fn blake2_64(data: &[u8]) -> [u8; 8] {
 
 /// Do a XX 64-bit hash and place result in `dest`.
 pub fn twox_64_into(data: &[u8], dest: &mut [u8; 8]) {
-	use ::core::hash::Hasher;
+	use core::hash::Hasher;
 	let mut h0 = twox_hash::XxHash::with_seed(0);
 	h0.write(data);
 	let r0 = h0.finish();
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ pub fn twox_64(data: &[u8]) -> [u8; 8] {
 
 /// Do a XX 128-bit hash and place result in `dest`.
 pub fn twox_128_into(data: &[u8], dest: &mut [u8; 16]) {
-	use ::core::hash::Hasher;
+	use core::hash::Hasher;
 	let mut h0 = twox_hash::XxHash::with_seed(0);
 	let mut h1 = twox_hash::XxHash::with_seed(1);
 	h0.write(data);
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ pub fn keccak_512(data: &[u8]) -> [u8; 64] {
 /// Do a sha2 256-bit hash and return result.
 pub fn sha2_256(data: &[u8]) -> [u8; 32] {
 	let mut hasher = Sha256::new();
-	hasher.input(data);
+	hasher.update(data);
 	let mut output = [0u8; 32];
-	output.copy_from_slice(&hasher.result());
+	output.copy_from_slice(&hasher.finalize());
 	output
 }