diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1b4aa19..35e8742 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ members = ["hiqlite"]
 exclude = ["examples"]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.4.0-20250108"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 authors = ["Sebastian Dobe <sebastiandobe@mailbox.org"]
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ panic = "abort"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 argon2 = "0.5.3"
+# upgrading axum is not possible right now because of blocking fastwebsockets
 axum = { version = "0.7.5", features = ["http2", "tokio"] }
 axum-extra = { version = "0.9.3", features = ["cookie"] }
 axum-server = { version = "0.7.1", features = [
@@ -34,13 +35,13 @@ chrono = { version = "0.4.38", default-features = false, features = [
     #"serde",
 ] }
 clap = { version = "4.1.11", features = ["derive", "env"] }
-cron = { version = "0.13" }
+cron = { version = "0.14" }
 cryptr = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["s3"] }
 ctrlc = { version = "3.4.4", features = ["termination"] }
 deadpool = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["rt_tokio_1"] }
 dotenvy = "0.15.7"
 eventsource-client = "0.13.0"
-fastwebsockets = { version = "0.8.0", features = [
+fastwebsockets = { version = "0.9.0", features = [
     "upgrade",
     "with_axum",
     "unstable-split",
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = [
     "json",
     "rustls-tls",
 ] }
-rocksdb = { version = "0.22.0", default-features = true, features = ["snappy"] }
+rocksdb = { version = "0.23.0", default-features = true, features = ["snappy"] }
 rusqlite = { version = "0.32.1", features = [
     "backup",
     "bundled",