diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d84c7f0f9..f979ad1f3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ opentelemetry_0_13 = ["opentelemetry", "tracing-opentelemetry"]
 emit_event_on_error = []
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.6"
+actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.5"
+actix-http = "=3.0.0-beta.5"
+actix-service = "=2.0.0-beta.5"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-futures = "0.2.4"
 futures = "0.3.5"
diff --git a/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml b/examples/custom-root-span/Cargo.toml
index 57ae59f6b..3ab42a560 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.6"
+actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.5"
 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 456c5fa73..0184628ff 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.6"
+actix-web = "=4.0.0-beta.5"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.13", features = ["rt-tokio-current-thread"] }
 opentelemetry-jaeger = { version = "0.12", features = ["tokio"] }