diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 649c4afad3..4995655e98 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -783,9 +783,9 @@ checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg_aliases"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fd16c4719339c4530435d38e511904438d07cce7950afa3718a84ac36c10e89e"
+checksum = "613afe47fcd5fac7ccf1db93babcb082c5994d996f20b8b159f2ad1658eb5724"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "chacha20"
@@ -3880,9 +3880,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "nix"
-version = "0.28.0"
+version = "0.29.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ab2156c4fce2f8df6c499cc1c763e4394b7482525bf2a9701c9d79d215f519e4"
+checksum = "71e2746dc3a24dd78b3cfcb7be93368c6de9963d30f43a6a73998a9cf4b17b46"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "cfg-if",
@@ -5472,9 +5472,9 @@ checksum = "7ffc183a10b4478d04cbbbfc96d0873219d962dd5accaff2ffbd4ceb7df837f4"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustyline"
-version = "14.0.0"
+version = "15.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7803e8936da37efd9b6d4478277f4b2b9bb5cdb37a113e8d63222e58da647e63"
+checksum = "2ee1e066dc922e513bda599c6ccb5f3bb2b0ea5870a579448f2622993f0a9a2f"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "cfg-if",
@@ -5484,12 +5484,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
  "memchr",
- "nix 0.28.0",
+ "nix 0.29.0",
  "radix_trie",
  "unicode-segmentation",
- "unicode-width",
+ "unicode-width 0.2.0",
  "utf8parse",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6273,7 +6273,7 @@ checksum = "23d434d3f8967a09480fb04132ebe0a3e088c173e6d0ee7897abbdf4eab0f8b9"
 dependencies = [
  "smawk",
  "unicode-linebreak",
- "unicode-width",
+ "unicode-width 0.1.11",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6779,6 +6779,12 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e51733f11c9c4f72aa0c160008246859e340b00807569a0da0e7a1079b27ba85"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1fc81956842c57dac11422a97c3b8195a1ff727f06e85c84ed2e8aa277c9a0fd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-xid"
 version = "0.2.4"
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 2f5827bbf8..fd31cd9c99 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ log = { workspace = true }
 nu-ansi-term = { workspace = true }
 qr2term = "0.3.3"
 rusqlite = { workspace = true }
-rustyline = "14"
+rustyline = "15"
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter"] }
 
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
index 2b16cc68fb..52a7a87549 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use log::{error, info, warn};
 use nu_ansi_term::Color;
 use rustyline::completion::{Completer, FilenameCompleter, Pair};
 use rustyline::error::ReadlineError;
-use rustyline::highlight::{Highlighter, MatchingBracketHighlighter};
+use rustyline::highlight::{CmdKind as HighlightCmdKind, Highlighter, MatchingBracketHighlighter};
 use rustyline::hint::{Hinter, HistoryHinter};
 use rustyline::validate::Validator;
 use rustyline::{
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ impl Highlighter for DcHelper {
         self.highlighter.highlight(line, pos)
     }
 
-    fn highlight_char(&self, line: &str, pos: usize, forced: bool) -> bool {
-        self.highlighter.highlight_char(line, pos, forced)
+    fn highlight_char(&self, line: &str, pos: usize, kind: HighlightCmdKind) -> bool {
+        self.highlighter.highlight_char(line, pos, kind)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 533ded2bdc..4fa2343aaf 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ skip = [
      { name = "sync_wrapper", version = "0.1.2" },
      { name = "syn", version = "1.0.109" },
      { name = "time", version = "<0.3" },
+     { name = "unicode-width", version = "0.1.11" },
      { name = "wasi", version = "<0.11" },
      { name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm", version = "<0.52" },
      { name = "windows_aarch64_msvc", version = "<0.52" },