diff --git a/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml b/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
index 0c205fc2a..e1c875a1f 100644
--- a/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 slab = "0.4"
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
 tls-openssl = { version = "0.10.9", package = "openssl", optional = true }
-tokio = { version = "1.2", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["sync"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-web = { version = "4.0.0-beta.15", default-features = false, features = ["cookies"] }
diff --git a/actix-http/Cargo.toml b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
index e4eadd37c..3ad3d786e 100644
--- a/actix-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 static_assertions = "1"
 tls-openssl = { package = "openssl", version = "0.10.9" }
 tls-rustls = { package = "rustls", version = "0.20.0" }
-tokio = { version = "1.2", features = ["net", "rt", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["net", "rt", "macros"] }
 
 [[example]]
 name = "ws"
diff --git a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
index c7145e542..595c14d7e 100644
--- a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ twoway = "0.2"
 actix-rt = "2.2"
 actix-http = "3.0.0-beta.16"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["sync"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
diff --git a/actix-test/Cargo.toml b/actix-test/Cargo.toml
index 7957b3a9c..4a4615820 100644
--- a/actix-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ serde_json = "1"
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
 tls-openssl = { package = "openssl", version = "0.10.9", optional = true }
 tls-rustls = { package = "rustls", version = "0.20.0", optional = true }
-tokio = { version = "1.2", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["sync"] }
diff --git a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
index 3f213f378..d57f139f6 100644
--- a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ bytes = "1"
 bytestring = "1"
 futures-core = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["sync"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "2.2"
diff --git a/awc/Cargo.toml b/awc/Cargo.toml
index cf12f2383..4b29aac16 100644
--- a/awc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/awc/Cargo.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ rand = "0.8"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["sync"] }
 
 cookie = { version = "0.15", features = ["percent-encode"], optional = true }