diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8ccfa248b7..9b8caba1ce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "libxml"
 version = "0.3.0"
-edition = "2018"
+edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Andreas Franzén <andreas@devil.se>", "Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@gmail.com>","Jan Frederik Schaefer <j.schaefer@jacobs-university.de>"]
 description = "A Rust wrapper for libxml2 - the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project"
 repository = "https://github.com/KWARC/rust-libxml"