diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4f4995b7..27fa9c1a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ indexmap = { version = "^1.5", features = ["serde-1", ] }
 linkify = "0.4.0"
 notify = "4.0.1" # >:c
 termion = "1.5.1"
-bincode = "1.2.0"
+bincode = "^1.3.0"
 uuid = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 unicode-segmentation = "1.2.1" # >:c
 libc = {version = "0.2.59", features = ["extra_traits",]}
diff --git a/melib/Cargo.toml b/melib/Cargo.toml
index 9cc2884d..ce259c8f 100644
--- a/melib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/melib/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ xdg = "2.1.0"
 native-tls = { version ="0.2.3", optional=true }
 serde = { version = "1.0.71", features = ["rc", ] }
 serde_derive = "1.0.71"
-bincode = "1.2.0"
+bincode = "^1.3.0"
 uuid = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["serde", "v4", "v5"] }
 
 unicode-segmentation = { version = "1.2.1", optional = true }