diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 23a5fc8ca..3f1f54fcc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ rcgen = "0.8"
 rustls-pemfile = "0.2"
 tls-openssl = { package = "openssl", version = "0.10.9" }
 tls-rustls = { package = "rustls", version = "0.20.0" }
-zstd = "0.7"
+zstd = "0.9"
 
 [profile.dev]
 # Disabling debug info speeds up builds a bunch and we don't rely on it for debugging that much.
diff --git a/actix-http/Cargo.toml b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
index 682104cd1..c2de71e10 100644
--- a/actix-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ actix-tls = { version = "3.0.0-beta.7", default-features = false, optional = tru
 # compression
 brotli2 = { version="0.3.2", optional = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1.0.13", optional = true }
-zstd = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
+zstd = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-server = "2.0.0-beta.9"