diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 529a52f0bdc..4626f33f116 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ ahash = { version = "0.8.6", default-features = false, features = [
     "no-rng", # we don't need DOS-protection, so we let users opt-in to it instead
     "std",
 ] }
+backtrace = "0.3"
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false }
 document-features = "0.2"
 glow = "0.13"
diff --git a/crates/egui/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui/Cargo.toml
index cf7dd686027..1e7b3c92821 100644
--- a/crates/egui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui/Cargo.toml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ nohash-hasher.workspace = true
 #! ### Optional dependencies
 accesskit = { version = "0.12", optional = true }
 
-backtrace = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+backtrace = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 ## Enable this when generating docs.
 document-features = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/epaint/Cargo.toml b/crates/epaint/Cargo.toml
index 23ec0ff09e6..0a39706c5f4 100644
--- a/crates/epaint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/epaint/Cargo.toml
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ serde = { version = "1", optional = true, features = ["derive", "rc"] }
 
 # native:
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
-backtrace = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+backtrace = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 
 [dev-dependencies]