diff --git a/virtweb_backend/Cargo.lock b/virtweb_backend/Cargo.lock
index b828cc7..61eb40b 100644
--- a/virtweb_backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/virtweb_backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -1930,6 +1930,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "io-uring"
+version = "0.7.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b86e202f00093dcba4275d4636b93ef9dd75d025ae560d2521b45ea28ab49013"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.1",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ipnet"
 version = "2.11.0"
@@ -3581,17 +3592,19 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.45.0"
+version = "1.46.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2513ca694ef9ede0fb23fe71a4ee4107cb102b9dc1930f6d0fd77aae068ae165"
+checksum = "1140bb80481756a8cbe10541f37433b459c5aa1e727b4c020fbfebdc25bf3ec4"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
+ "io-uring",
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
+ "slab",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
diff --git a/virtweb_backend/Cargo.toml b/virtweb_backend/Cargo.toml
index 95ab5ca..9ff9f42 100644
--- a/virtweb_backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/virtweb_backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ lazy-regex = "3.4.1"
 thiserror = "2.0.12"
 image = "0.25.6"
 rand = "0.9.1"
-tokio = { version = "1.45.0", features = ["rt", "time", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.46.0", features = ["rt", "time", "macros"] }
 futures = "0.3.31"
 ipnetwork = { version = "0.21.1", features = ["serde"] }
 num = "0.4.3"