diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 27f6798d8c..d92e45e0ff 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4560,9 +4560,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.7.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "806fe8c2c87eccc8b3267cbae29ed3ab2d0bd37fca70ab622e46aaa9375ddb7d"
+checksum = "1d68074620f57a0b21594d9735eb2e98ab38b17f80d3fcb189fca266771ca60d"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ea360be7bc..a4633fcd65 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ js-sys = "0.3.61"
 wasm-bindgen-futures = "0.4.19"
 futures-timer = "3"
 instant = { version = "0.1.12", default-features = false }
-tokio-util = "0.7.8"
+tokio-util = "0.7.9"
 
 # Substrate crates:
 sp-core = { version = "21.0.0", default-features = false }