diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 267d529..b7e6cbb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2195,7 +2195,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "slog-term",
  "thiserror",
  "time 0.3.2",
- "tokio 0.3.7",
+ "tokio 1.12.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3324,16 +3324,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi 0.3.9",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio"
-version = "0.3.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "46409491c9375a693ce7032101970a54f8a2010efb77e13f70788f0d84489e39"
-dependencies = [
- "autocfg",
- "pin-project-lite 0.2.7",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
 version = "1.12.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 28d72a4..02ff880 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ rocket_contrib = { version = "0.4", default-features = true }
 percent-encoding= "2.1.0"
 thiserror="1.0"
 backtrace="0.3"
-tokio = { version = "0.3.5", features = ["time"]} # pin to 3.5
+tokio = { version = "1.12.0", features = ["time"]} # pin to 3.5
 sentry = { version = "0.19", features=["with_curl_transport", "failure"]} # pin to 0.19 due to ops requirement