diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 62ad875e7..3d210a6eb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2155,8 +2155,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "halfbrown"
-version = "0.2.4"
-source = "git+https://github.com/licenser/halfbrown?rev=7cecc29#7cecc29422ae2775abe35a2e430f1678b4f1aa76"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8588661a8607108a5ca69cab034063441a0413a0b041c13618a7dd348021ef6f"
 dependencies = [
  "hashbrown 0.14.3",
  "serde",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 49c31320e..e44a91038 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -237,8 +237,6 @@ serial_test = { version = "3.0", features = ["file_locks"] }
 dynfmt = { git = "https://github.com/jqnatividad/dynfmt", branch = "2021-clippy_ptr_as_ptr-bumpdeps" }
 # needed to get latest dependencies and unreleased fixes
 grex = { git = "https://github.com/pemistahl/grex", rev = "cb70109" }
-# needed to get rid of old hashbrown dependency
-halfbrown = { git = "https://github.com/licenser/halfbrown", rev = "7cecc29" }
 # nam_dict.txt file needed to be loaded from filesystem upstream, and not vendored, causing runtime errors
 # we created a PR to fix this, and it's been merged, but not released
 gender_guesser = { git = "https://github.com/Raduc4/gender_guesser", rev = "dd1c0e0" }