diff --git a/actix-rt/CHANGES.md b/actix-rt/CHANGES.md
index abfb6c95..ad9cecff 100644
--- a/actix-rt/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-rt/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Changes
 
 ## Unreleased - 2021-xx-xx
+
+
+## 2.5.1 - 2021-12-31
 - Expose `System::with_tokio_rt` and `Arbiter::with_tokio_rt`. [#430]
 
 [#430]: https://github.com/actix/actix-net/pull/430
diff --git a/actix-rt/Cargo.toml b/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
index d43ed1d9..cd68a50a 100644
--- a/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-rt"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.5.1"
 authors = [
     "Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>",
     "Rob Ede <robjtede@icloud.com>",
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ io-uring = ["tokio-uring"]
 actix-macros = { version = "0.2.3", optional = true }
 
 futures-core = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-tokio = { version = "1.5.1", features = ["rt", "net", "parking_lot", "signal", "sync", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.13.1", features = ["rt", "net", "parking_lot", "signal", "sync", "time"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 tokio-uring = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.5.1", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.13.1", features = ["full"] }
 hyper = { version = "0.14", default-features = false, features = ["server", "tcp", "http1"] }
diff --git a/actix-rt/README.md b/actix-rt/README.md
index f1b891b8..453efa76 100644
--- a/actix-rt/README.md
+++ b/actix-rt/README.md
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 > Tokio-based single-threaded async runtime for the Actix ecosystem.
 
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+[![Documentation](https://docs.rs/actix-rt/badge.svg?version=2.5.1)](https://docs.rs/actix-rt/2.5.1)
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 <br />
-[![dependency status](https://deps.rs/crate/actix-rt/2.5.0/status.svg)](https://deps.rs/crate/actix-rt/2.5.0)
+[![dependency status](https://deps.rs/crate/actix-rt/2.5.1/status.svg)](https://deps.rs/crate/actix-rt/2.5.1)
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