diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4183ebb14..0870b31bb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ opentelemetry_0_16 = ["opentelemetry_0_16_pkg", "tracing-opentelemetry_0_15_pkg"
 emit_event_on_error = []
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "=4.0.0-beta.8", default-features = false }
+actix-web = { version = "=4.0.0-beta.9", default-features = false }
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-futures = "0.2.4"
 futures = "0.3.5"
diff --git a/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml b/examples/opentelemetry/Cargo.toml
index 961a0e706..2494c182f 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.8"
+actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.9"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.14", features = ["rt-tokio-current-thread"] }
 opentelemetry-jaeger = { version = "0.13", features = ["tokio"] }