diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5b9d1e2e..942d3ed8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -313,9 +313,9 @@ checksum = "134951f4028bdadb9b84baf4232681efbf277da25144b9b0ad65df75946c422b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "encoding_rs"
-version = "0.8.23"
+version = "0.8.24"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e8ac63f94732332f44fe654443c46f6375d1939684c17b0afb6cb56b0456e171"
+checksum = "a51b8cf747471cb9499b6d59e59b0444f4c90eba8968c4e44874e92b5b64ace2"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
@@ -1084,9 +1084,9 @@ checksum = "d36492546b6af1463394d46f0c834346f31548646f6ba10849802c9c9a27ac33"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ppv-lite86"
-version = "0.2.8"
+version = "0.2.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "237a5ed80e274dbc66f86bd59c1e25edc039660be53194b5fe0a482e0f2612ea"
+checksum = "c36fa947111f5c62a733b652544dd0016a43ce89619538a8ef92724a6f501a20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pretty"
@@ -1381,9 +1381,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.10.7"
+version = "0.10.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "12427a5577082c24419c9c417db35cfeb65962efc7675bb6b0d5f1f9d315bfe6"
+checksum = "e9eaa17ac5d7b838b7503d118fa16ad88f440498bf9ffe5424e621f93190d61e"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.12.3",
  "bytes 0.5.6",
@@ -1791,7 +1791,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
  "memchr",
  "mio",
- "num_cpus",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "slab 0.4.2",
  "tokio-macros",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ea8159ac..f0864da2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ log             = "^0.4"
 openssl         = { version = "^0.10", features = ["v110"] }
 pretty          = "0.5.2" # for testing
 rand            = "^0.5"
-reqwest         = { version = "0.10.4", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
+reqwest         = { version = "0.10.8", features = [ "json"] }
 rpki            = { git = "https://github.com/NLnetLabs/rpki-rs.git", branch = "rta-01", version = "0.9.2-bis" }
 serde           = { version = "^1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json      = "^1.0"