diff --git a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
index 6ba99ec050e..6a42184014a 100644
--- a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ rt = ["tokio/rt", "tokio/sync", "futures-util", "hashbrown"]
 __docs_rs = ["futures-util"]
 
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.21.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.22.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["sync"] }
 bytes = "1.0.0"
 futures-core = "0.3.0"
 futures-sink = "0.3.0"