diff --git a/tendermint/Cargo.toml b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
index 1b301bab1..0d4d146c7 100644
--- a/tendermint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ all-features = true
 rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
 
 [dependencies]
-bytes = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
+bytes = { version = "1.2", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
 ed25519 = { version = "1.3", default-features = false }
 ed25519-dalek = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["u64_backend"] }
 futures = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }