diff --git a/farp-rust/Cargo.toml b/farp-rust/Cargo.toml
index c311d80..060cd3f 100644
--- a/farp-rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/farp-rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ async-graphql-parser = { version = "7.0", optional = true }
 prost = { version = "0.14", optional = true }
 prost-types = { version = "0.14", optional = true }
 tonic = { version = "0.14", optional = true }
-apache-avro = { version = "0.20", optional = true }
+apache-avro = { version = "0.21", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.40", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "test-util"] }