diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index acf9099d1..93464ff25 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ postcard = { version = "1.0.4", features = [
 ], default-features = false }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dev-dependencies]
-criterion = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies.fail]
 version = "0.5.0"
diff --git a/sstable/Cargo.toml b/sstable/Cargo.toml
index d03a9fc46..b963d8467 100644
--- a/sstable/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sstable/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ zstd-compression = ["zstd"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 proptest = "1"
-criterion = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
 names = "0.14"
 rand = "0.9"