diff --git a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
index f0740199e..97ecc60a8 100644
--- a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ codec = ["tokio/stream"]
 udp = ["tokio/udp"]
 
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "0.2.0", path = "../tokio" }
+tokio = { version = "0.2.5", path = "../tokio" }
 
 bytes = "0.5.0"
 futures-core = "0.3.0"