diff --git a/hash256-std-hasher/Cargo.toml b/hash256-std-hasher/Cargo.toml
index bdeb08ef..0695e058 100644
--- a/hash256-std-hasher/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hash256-std-hasher/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ harness = false
 crunchy = "0.2.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.5.1"
+criterion = "0.7.0"
 
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
diff --git a/memory-db/Cargo.toml b/memory-db/Cargo.toml
index a25d06db..551cda0a 100644
--- a/memory-db/Cargo.toml
+++ b/memory-db/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ foldhash = "0.1.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 keccak-hasher = { path = "../test-support/keccak-hasher" }
-criterion = "0.5.1"
+criterion = "0.7.0"
 
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
diff --git a/test-support/reference-trie/Cargo.toml b/test-support/reference-trie/Cargo.toml
index 1d455459..26105837 100644
--- a/test-support/reference-trie/Cargo.toml
+++ b/test-support/reference-trie/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ paste = "1.0.12"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 trie-bench = { path = "../trie-bench" }
-criterion = "0.5.1"
+criterion = "0.7.0"
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "bench"
diff --git a/test-support/trie-bench/Cargo.toml b/test-support/trie-bench/Cargo.toml
index 32104ffa..94f3e009 100644
--- a/test-support/trie-bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/test-support/trie-bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ hash-db = { path = "../../hash-db" , version = "0.16.0"}
 memory-db = { path = "../../memory-db", version = "0.34.0" }
 trie-root = { path = "../../trie-root", version = "0.18.0" }
 trie-db = { path = "../../trie-db", version = "0.30.0" }
-criterion = "0.5.1"
+criterion = "0.7.0"
 parity-scale-codec = "3.0.0"
diff --git a/trie-db/test/Cargo.toml b/trie-db/test/Cargo.toml
index aac2df62..cdca5a06 100644
--- a/trie-db/test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/trie-db/test/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ rand = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["small_rng"] }
 trie-standardmap = { path = "../../test-support/trie-standardmap", version = "0.16.0" }
 reference-trie = { path = "../../test-support/reference-trie", version = "0.29.0" }
 hex-literal = "0.4"
-criterion = "0.5.1"
+criterion = "0.7.0"
 env_logger = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
 log = "0.4"