diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ae21d147..15cc91c5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-vec"
-version = "0.6.3"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "349f9b6a179ed607305526ca489b34ad0a41aed5f7980fa90eb03160b69598fb"
+checksum = "d2c54ff287cfc0a34f38a6b832ea1bd8e448a330b3e40a50859e6488bee07f22"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
@@ -293,9 +293,9 @@ checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap"
-version = "4.5.7"
+version = "4.5.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5db83dced34638ad474f39f250d7fea9598bdd239eaced1bdf45d597da0f433f"
+checksum = "84b3edb18336f4df585bc9aa31dd99c036dfa5dc5e9a2939a722a188f3a8970d"
 dependencies = [
  "clap_builder",
  "clap_derive",
@@ -303,9 +303,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_builder"
-version = "4.5.7"
+version = "4.5.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f7e204572485eb3fbf28f871612191521df159bc3e15a9f5064c66dba3a8c05f"
+checksum = "c1c09dd5ada6c6c78075d6fd0da3f90d8080651e2d6cc8eb2f1aaa4034ced708"
 dependencies = [
  "anstream",
  "anstyle",
@@ -315,9 +315,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_derive"
-version = "4.5.5"
+version = "4.5.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c780290ccf4fb26629baa7a1081e68ced113f1d3ec302fa5948f1c381ebf06c6"
+checksum = "2bac35c6dafb060fd4d275d9a4ffae97917c13a6327903a8be2153cd964f7085"
 dependencies = [
  "heck",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -655,9 +655,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
-version = "0.4.21"
+version = "0.4.22"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "90ed8c1e510134f979dbc4f070f87d4313098b704861a105fe34231c70a3901c"
+checksum = "a7a70ba024b9dc04c27ea2f0c0548feb474ec5c54bba33a7f72f873a39d07b24"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
diff --git a/crypto/Cargo.toml b/crypto/Cargo.toml
index 2c46b8a4..9bb65820 100644
--- a/crypto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ description = "Utilities for node addressing and message signing in the aleph-bf
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
-bit-vec = "0.6"
+bit-vec = "0.7"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 derive_more = "0.99"
 log = "0.4"