diff --git a/pallas-crypto/Cargo.toml b/pallas-crypto/Cargo.toml
index c6e62c35..d662caac 100644
--- a/pallas-crypto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pallas-crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ed25519-dalek = { version = "2", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
 zeroize = { version = "1.8.1", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.7"
+criterion = "0.8"
 itertools.workspace = true
 quickcheck = "1.0"
 quickcheck_macros = "1.0"
diff --git a/pallas-network2/Cargo.toml b/pallas-network2/Cargo.toml
index 3fb3c0a4..068a90af 100644
--- a/pallas-network2/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pallas-network2/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ blueprint = []
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.45.1", features = ["full", "test-util"] }
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "protocol"