diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index aacb950d..273422d0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5073,9 +5073,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.42.0"
+version = "1.44.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5cec9b21b0450273377fc97bd4c33a8acffc8c996c987a7c5b319a0083707551"
+checksum = "e6b88822cbe49de4185e3a4cbf8321dd487cf5fe0c5c65695fef6346371e9c48"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
@@ -5091,9 +5091,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.4.0"
+version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "693d596312e88961bc67d7f1f97af8a70227d9f90c31bba5806eec004978d752"
+checksum = "6e06d43f1345a3bcd39f6a56dbb7dcab2ba47e68e8ac134855e7e2bdbaf8cab8"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/axum/Cargo.toml b/axum/Cargo.toml
index 556ff948..41453965 100644
--- a/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["raw_value"], optional = true }
 serde_path_to_error = { version = "0.1.8", optional = true }
 serde_urlencoded = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 sha1 = { version = "0.10", optional = true }
-tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.25.0", features = ["time"], optional = true }
+tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.44", features = ["time"], optional = true }
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.26.0", optional = true }
 tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "str
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["raw_value"] }
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["serde-human-readable"] }
-tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.25.0", features = ["macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "test-util"] }
+tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.44.2", features = ["macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "test-util"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 tokio-tungstenite = "0.26.0"
 tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/axum/src/serve/mod.rs b/axum/src/serve/mod.rs
index ca673b44..b6b15265 100644
--- a/axum/src/serve/mod.rs
+++ b/axum/src/serve/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use std::{
     future::{poll_fn, Future, IntoFuture},
     io,
     marker::PhantomData,
-    sync::Arc,
 };
 
 use axum_core::{body::Body, extract::Request, response::Response};
@@ -293,7 +292,6 @@ where
         } = self;
 
         let (signal_tx, signal_rx) = watch::channel(());
-        let signal_tx = Arc::new(signal_tx);
         tokio::spawn(async move {
             signal.await;
             trace!("received graceful shutdown signal. Telling tasks to shutdown");
@@ -330,7 +328,7 @@ where
 
             let hyper_service = TowerToHyperService::new(tower_service);
 
-            let signal_tx = Arc::clone(&signal_tx);
+            let signal_tx = signal_tx.clone();
 
             let close_rx = close_rx.clone();