diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 65d1bd5e4..0abbf1bd1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ opentelemetry_0_14 = ["opentelemetry_0_14_pkg", "tracing-opentelemetry_0_13_pkg"
 emit_event_on_error = []
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.7"
-actix-http = "=3.0.0-beta.7"
+actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.8"
+actix-http = "=3.0.0-beta.8"
 actix-service = "^2.0.0"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-futures = "0.2.4"
diff --git a/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml b/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml
index befc4e325..ac7cae096 100644
--- a/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.7"
+actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.8"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.13", features = ["rt-tokio-current-thread"] }
 opentelemetry-jaeger = { version = "0.12", features = ["tokio"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.12" }
diff --git a/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml b/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
index c7ad9f97c..961a0e706 100644
--- a/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.7"
+actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.8"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.14", features = ["rt-tokio-current-thread"] }
 opentelemetry-jaeger = { version = "0.13", features = ["tokio"] }