diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6bbb5dbfa2..b5f6b3b328 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4098,7 +4098,7 @@ checksum = "4b55807c0344e1e6c04d7c965f5289c39a8d94ae23ed5c0b57aabac549f871c6"
 dependencies = [
  "filetime",
  "libc",
- "xattr",
+ "xattr 0.2.3",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4379,16 +4379,17 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-tar"
-version = "0.3.0"
-source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/tokio-tar.git?rev=404df61437de0feef49ba2ccdbdd94eb8ad6e142#404df61437de0feef49ba2ccdbdd94eb8ad6e142"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9d5714c010ca3e5c27114c1cdeb9d14641ace49874aa5626d7149e47aedace75"
 dependencies = [
  "filetime",
  "futures-core",
  "libc",
- "redox_syscall 0.2.16",
+ "redox_syscall 0.3.5",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "xattr",
+ "xattr 1.0.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5362,6 +5363,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "xattr"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ea263437ca03c1522846a4ddafbca2542d0ad5ed9b784909d4b27b76f62bc34a"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "xmlparser"
 version = "0.13.5"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6ae31c13ac..01e2fe7cf9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
 tokio-postgres-rustls = "0.9.0"
 tokio-rustls = "0.23"
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
+tokio-tar = "0.3"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["io"] }
 toml = "0.7"
 toml_edit = "0.19"
@@ -148,7 +149,6 @@ postgres-native-tls = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git
 postgres-protocol = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="1aaedab101b23f7612042850d8f2036810fa7c7f" }
 postgres-types = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="1aaedab101b23f7612042850d8f2036810fa7c7f" }
 tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", rev="1aaedab101b23f7612042850d8f2036810fa7c7f" }
-tokio-tar = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/tokio-tar.git", rev="404df61437de0feef49ba2ccdbdd94eb8ad6e142" }
 
 ## Other git libraries
 heapless = { default-features=false, features=[], git = "https://github.com/japaric/heapless.git", rev = "644653bf3b831c6bb4963be2de24804acf5e5001" } # upstream release pending
diff --git a/pageserver/src/basebackup.rs b/pageserver/src/basebackup.rs
index c666fc785c..d2dc759835 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/basebackup.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/basebackup.rs
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ use tokio::io;
 use tokio::io::AsyncWrite;
 use tracing::*;
 
-/// NB: This relies on a modified version of tokio_tar that does *not* write the
-/// end-of-archive marker (1024 zero bytes), when the Builder struct is dropped
-/// without explicitly calling 'finish' or 'into_inner'!
-///
-/// See https://github.com/neondatabase/tokio-tar/pull/1
-///
 use tokio_tar::{Builder, EntryType, Header};
 
 use crate::context::RequestContext;