diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6b52a30..45d3dde 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2035,18 +2035,18 @@ checksum = "5ee073c9e4cd00e28217186dbe12796d692868f432bf2e97ee73bed0c56dfa01"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "strum"
-version = "0.25.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "290d54ea6f91c969195bdbcd7442c8c2a2ba87da8bf60a7ee86a235d4bc1e125"
+checksum = "723b93e8addf9aa965ebe2d11da6d7540fa2283fcea14b3371ff055f7ba13f5f"
 dependencies = [
  "strum_macros",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "strum_macros"
-version = "0.25.3"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "23dc1fa9ac9c169a78ba62f0b841814b7abae11bdd047b9c58f893439e309ea0"
+checksum = "7a3417fc93d76740d974a01654a09777cb500428cc874ca9f45edfe0c4d4cd18"
 dependencies = [
  "heck",
  "proc-macro2",
diff --git a/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
index ef369f4..6e78c1b 100644
--- a/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ diesel-async = { version = "0.4.1", features = ["postgres", "deadpool"] }
 wiktionary-dump-parser = "0.6.0"
 
 # convert enum variants from and to string
-strum = { version = "0.25", features = ["derive"] }
+strum = { version = "0.26", features = ["derive"] }
 
 # date and time
 chrono = "0.4.26"