diff --git a/packaging/Makefile b/packaging/Makefile
index 0d1c4dcb..cc217ce3 100644
--- a/packaging/Makefile
+++ b/packaging/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ debian-package-code:
 	cp ../examples/instance_message_from_aleph.json ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/examples/instance_message_from_aleph.json
 	cp -r ../examples/data ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/examples/data
 	mkdir -p ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/examples/volumes
-	pip3 install --progress-bar off --target ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/ 'aleph-message==0.4.9' 'eth-account==0.10' 'sentry-sdk==1.31.0' 'qmp==1.1.0' 'aleph-superfluid~=0.2.1' 'sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.0' 'aiosqlite==0.19.0' 'alembic==1.13.1' 'aiohttp_cors==0.7.0' 'pyroute2==0.7.12' 'python-cpuid==0.1.0' 'solathon==1.0.2'
+	pip3 install --progress-bar off --target ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/ 'aleph-message==0.5.0' 'eth-account==0.10' 'sentry-sdk==1.31.0' 'qmp==1.1.0' 'aleph-superfluid~=0.2.1' 'sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.0' 'aiosqlite==0.19.0' 'alembic==1.13.1' 'aiohttp_cors==0.7.0' 'pyroute2==0.7.12' 'python-cpuid==0.1.0' 'solathon==1.0.2'
 	python3 -m compileall ./aleph-vm/opt/aleph-vm/
 
 debian-package-resources: firecracker-bins vmlinux download-ipfs-kubo  target/bin/sevctl
@@ -144,6 +144,6 @@ repository-noble:
 	cd ./repositories/noble && reprepro -Vb . includedeb noble ../../target/aleph-vm.ubuntu-24.04.deb && cd ..
 
 repositories: repository-bookworm repository-jammy repository-noble
- 
+
 all-podman: all-podman-debian-12 all-podman-ubuntu-2204 all-podman-ubuntu-2404 repositories
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5c4efc54..50c314c2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "aioredis==1.3.1",
   "aiosqlite==0.19",
   "alembic==1.13.1",
-  "aleph-message==0.4.9",
+  "aleph-message==0.5",
   "aleph-superfluid~=0.2.1",
   "dbus-python==1.3.2",
   "eth-account~=0.10",