diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7eba1e66..17ed3edc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ version = "1.1.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "40c48f72fd53cd289104fc64099abca73db4166ad86ea0b4341abe65af83dadc"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ checksum = "291e6a250ff86cd4a820112fb8898808a366d8f9f58ce16d1f538353ad55747d"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "once_cell_polyfill",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha1",
  "sync_wrapper",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.28.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tower",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ version = "3.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "faf9468729b8cbcea668e36183cb69d317348c2e08e994829fb56ebfdfbaac34"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "option-ext",
  "redox_users 0.5.2",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "39cab71617ae0d63f51a36d69f866391735b51691dbda63cf6f96d042b63efeb"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2622,7 +2622,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2 0.5.10",
  "tokio",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -3562,7 +3562,7 @@ version = "0.50.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7957b9740744892f114936ab4a57b3f487491bbeafaf8083688b16841a4240e5"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3842,7 +3842,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-test",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tracing",
  "url",
  "uuid",
@@ -4048,7 +4048,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-test",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tracing",
  "uuid",
  "wasmtime",
@@ -4186,7 +4186,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7d8fae84b431384b68627d0f9b3b1245fcf9f46f6c0e3dc902e9dce64edd1967"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4794,7 +4794,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "quinn-udp",
  "rustc-hash",
  "rustls",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2 0.5.10",
  "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
@@ -4831,7 +4831,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg_aliases",
  "libc",
  "once_cell",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2 0.5.10",
  "tracing",
  "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
@@ -5345,7 +5345,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys 0.12.1",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5403,7 +5403,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "security-framework",
  "security-framework-sys",
  "webpki-root-certs",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5914,7 +5914,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3a766e1110788c36f4fa1c2b71b387a7815aa65f88ce0229841826633d93723e"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6617,7 +6617,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.4.2",
  "once_cell",
  "rustix 1.1.4",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6807,9 +6807,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
+version = "0.28.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "edc5f74e248dc973e0dbb7b74c7e0d6fcc301c694ff50049504004ef4d0cdcd9"
+checksum = "d25a406cddcc431a75d3d9afc6a7c0f7428d4891dd973e4d54c56b46127bf857"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "log",
@@ -6818,19 +6818,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
- "tungstenite 0.24.0",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-tungstenite"
-version = "0.28.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d25a406cddcc431a75d3d9afc6a7c0f7428d4891dd973e4d54c56b46127bf857"
-dependencies = [
- "futures-util",
- "log",
- "tokio",
- "tungstenite 0.28.0",
+ "tungstenite",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -7105,26 +7093,6 @@ version = "0.2.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e421abadd41a4225275504ea4d6566923418b7f05506fbc9c0fe86ba7396114b"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "18e5b8366ee7a95b16d32197d0b2604b43a0be89dc5fac9f8e96ccafbaedda8a"
-dependencies = [
- "byteorder",
- "bytes",
- "data-encoding",
- "http",
- "httparse",
- "log",
- "rand 0.8.5",
- "rustls",
- "rustls-pki-types",
- "sha1",
- "thiserror 1.0.69",
- "utf-8",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tungstenite"
 version = "0.28.0"
@@ -7137,6 +7105,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "httparse",
  "log",
  "rand 0.9.2",
+ "rustls",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "sha1",
  "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "utf-8",
@@ -7168,7 +7138,7 @@ checksum = "51b70b87d15e91f553711b40df3048faf27a7a04e01e0ddc0cf9309f0af7c2ca"
 dependencies = [
  "memoffset",
  "tempfile",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -8052,7 +8022,7 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c2a7b1c03c876122aa43f3020e6c3c3ee5c05081c9a00739faf7503aeba10d22"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8dfcf481..a99a5c8b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ bytes = "1"
 futures = "0.3"
 
 # WebSocket client (for Discord/Slack gateway)
-tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.24", default-features = false, features = ["connect", "rustls-tls-native-roots"] }
+tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.28", default-features = false, features = ["connect", "rustls-tls-native-roots"] }
 url = "2"
 
 # WASM sandbox
diff --git a/crates/openfang-runtime/Cargo.toml b/crates/openfang-runtime/Cargo.toml
index 065cde42..002011b6 100644
--- a/crates/openfang-runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/openfang-runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ zeroize = { workspace = true }
 dashmap = { workspace = true }
 regex-lite = { workspace = true }
 rusqlite = { workspace = true }
-tokio-tungstenite = "0.24"
+tokio-tungstenite = "0.28"
 shlex = "1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]