diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 82df53f8c..375992291 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -358,16 +358,16 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cargo_metadata"
-version = "0.18.1"
+version = "0.19.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2d886547e41f740c616ae73108f6eb70afe6d940c7bc697cb30f13daec073037"
+checksum = "8769706aad5d996120af43197bf46ef6ad0fda35216b4505f926a365a232d924"
 dependencies = [
  "camino",
  "cargo-platform",
  "semver",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
- "thiserror 1.0.63",
+ "thiserror 2.0.9",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -404,13 +404,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap-cargo"
-version = "0.14.1"
+version = "0.15.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "23b2ea69cefa96b848b73ad516ad1d59a195cdf9263087d977f648a818c8b43e"
+checksum = "2c2ba3908a873a4f3ae90fc2e59d9d27da06f3dec04614ab657c87580090f55b"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "cargo_metadata",
  "clap",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2075,9 +2077,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.121"
+version = "1.0.134"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4ab380d7d9f22ef3f21ad3e6c1ebe8e4fc7a2000ccba2e4d71fc96f15b2cb609"
+checksum = "d00f4175c42ee48b15416f6193a959ba3a0d67fc699a0db9ad12df9f83991c7d"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a973a3c6c..d4e54c0c7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ vendored-libgit2 = ["git2/vendored-libgit2"]
 vendored-openssl = ["git2/vendored-openssl"]
 
 [dependencies]
-cargo_metadata = "0.18"
+cargo_metadata = "0.19"
 # Use this with default-features set to "true" (implicitly) so that reqwest,
 # a transitive dependency, is compiled with support for both webpki
 # certificates AND native certificates. We want support for both to be
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ ignore = "0.4"
 itertools = "0.14"
 once_cell = "1.19.0"
 clap = { version = "4.5.4", features = ["derive", "wrap_help"] }
-clap-cargo = { version = "0.14.0", features = ["cargo_metadata"] }
+clap-cargo = { version = "0.15.0", features = ["cargo_metadata"] }
 log = "0.4"
 env_logger = "0.11"
 globset = { version = "0.4.14", default-features = false }
diff --git a/src/steps/plan.rs b/src/steps/plan.rs
index d07a34f57..ecdbd101b 100644
--- a/src/steps/plan.rs
+++ b/src/steps/plan.rs
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ impl PackageRelease {
             .targets
             .iter()
             .flat_map(|t| t.kind.iter())
-            .any(|k| k == "bin");
+            .any(|k| *k == cargo_metadata::TargetKind::Bin);
         let mut package_content = cargo::package_content(&manifest_path)?;
         if bin {
             // When publishing bins, the lock file is listed as relative to the package root, so