diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 86ce5006..ba99231b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ maintenance = { status = "actively-developed" }
 twox-hash = "1.1"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 serde = "1.0"
-rand = "0.5"
+rand = "0.7"
 packed_simd = { version = "0.3", features = ["into_bits"] }