diff --git a/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml b/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
index 07f9f313307..8411cecb380 100644
--- a/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ lightning = { version = "0.0.113", path = "../lightning" }
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt", "sync", "net", "time" ] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "~1.14", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "net", "time" ] }
+tokio = { version = "~1.23", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "net", "time" ] }