diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5f59aef..8443263 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Bump `tracing-actix-web` from 0.7.9 to 0.7.10 ([#742](https://github.com/vbrandl/hoc/pull/742))
 - Bump `mio` from 0.8.9 to 0.8.11 ([#740](https://github.com/vbrandl/hoc/pull/740))
 - Bump `softprops/action-gh-release` from 1 to 2 ([#743](https://github.com/vbrandl/hoc/pull/743))
+- Bump `bytes` from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 ([#751](https://github.com/vbrandl/hoc/pull/751))
 
 ## [0.36.0] 2023-11-17
 ### Dependencies
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 103b82a..bed0a45 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -443,9 +443,9 @@ checksum = "2c676a478f63e9fa2dd5368a42f28bba0d6c560b775f38583c8bbaa7fcd67c9c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2bd12c1caf447e69cd4528f47f94d203fd2582878ecb9e9465484c4148a8223"
+checksum = "514de17de45fdb8dc022b1a7975556c53c86f9f0aa5f534b98977b171857c2c9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytestring"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5b43f6a..092d833 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ name = "hoc"
 actix-rt = "2.9.0"
 actix-web = "4.5.1"
 badgers = "1.2.0"
-bytes = "1.5.0"
+bytes = "1.6.0"
 config = { version = "0.14.0", features = ["toml"] }
 dotenvy = "0.15.7"
 futures = "0.3.30"