diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c2fa1c6..e556b04 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.vscode/
 .project
 target/
 /Cargo.lock
diff --git a/lettre/Cargo.toml b/lettre/Cargo.toml
index 5a9823a..da8f45b 100644
--- a/lettre/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lettre/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "lettre/lettre" }
 log = "^0.3"
 bufstream = { version = "^0.1", optional = true }
 native-tls = { version = "^0.1", optional = true }
-base64 = { version = "^0.6", optional = true }
+base64 = { version = "^0.7", optional = true }
 hex = { version = "^0.2", optional = true }
 rust-crypto = { version = "^0.2", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "^1.0", optional = true }