diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e4e2c99..e034130 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1918,9 +1918,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde-aux"
-version = "3.1.0"
+version = "4.1.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d0a77223b653fa95f3f9864f3eb25b93e4ed170687eb42d85b6b98af21d5e1de"
+checksum = "c599b3fd89a75e0c18d6d2be693ddb12cccaf771db4ff9e39097104808a014c0"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "serde",
@@ -2372,9 +2372,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-actix-web"
-version = "0.6.2"
+version = "0.7.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d725b8fa6ef307b3f4856913523337de45c47cc79271bafd7acfb39559e3a2da"
+checksum = "4082e4d81173e0b7ad3cfb71e9eaef0dd0cbb7b139fdb56394f488a3b0760b23"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-web",
  "pin-project",
@@ -2530,9 +2530,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "validator"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f07b0a1390e01c0fc35ebb26b28ced33c9a3808f7f9fbe94d3cc01e233bfeed5"
+checksum = "32ad5bf234c7d3ad1042e5252b7eddb2c4669ee23f32c7dd0e9b7705f07ef591"
 dependencies = [
  "idna 0.2.3",
  "lazy_static",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ea3a19c..458918a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["registry", "env-filter"] }
 tracing-bunyan-formatter = "0.3.1"
 tracing-log = "0.1.1"
-serde-aux = "3"
+serde-aux = "4"
 unicode-segmentation = "1.7.1"
-validator = "0.15.0"
-tracing-actix-web = "0.6"
+validator = "0.16"
+tracing-actix-web = "0.7"
 secrecy = { version = "0.8", features = ["serde"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/configuration.rs b/src/configuration.rs
index 89cfca5..6f52c70 100644
--- a/src/configuration.rs
+++ b/src/configuration.rs
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ pub fn get_configuration() -> Result<Settings, config::ConfigError> {
             configuration_directory.join("base.yaml"),
         ))
         .add_source(config::File::from(
-            configuration_directory.join(&environment_filename),
+            configuration_directory.join(environment_filename),
         ))
         // Add in settings from environment variables (with a prefix of APP and '__' as separator)
         // E.g. `APP_APPLICATION__PORT=5001 would set `Settings.application.port`