diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5035a24e..ce091a6d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -282,10 +282,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "cast",
  "ciborium",
  "clap",
- "criterion-plot",
- "futures",
+ "criterion-plot 0.5.0",
  "is-terminal",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
  "num-traits",
  "once_cell",
  "oorandom",
@@ -296,6 +295,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
  "serde_json",
  "tinytemplate",
+ "walkdir",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "criterion"
+version = "0.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e1c047a62b0cc3e145fa84415a3191f628e980b194c2755aa12300a4e6cbd928"
+dependencies = [
+ "anes",
+ "cast",
+ "ciborium",
+ "clap",
+ "criterion-plot 0.6.0",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
+ "num-traits",
+ "oorandom",
+ "plotters",
+ "rayon",
+ "regex",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "tinytemplate",
  "tokio",
  "walkdir",
 ]
@@ -307,7 +329,17 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6b50826342786a51a89e2da3a28f1c32b06e387201bc2d19791f622c673706b1"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "criterion-plot"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9b1bcc0dc7dfae599d84ad0b1a55f80cde8af3725da8313b528da95ef783e338"
+dependencies = [
+ "cast",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -690,6 +722,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "413ee7dfc52ee1a4949ceeb7dbc8a33f2d6c088194d9f922fb8318faf1f01186"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.15"
@@ -853,7 +894,7 @@ name = "msg"
 version = "0.1.3"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "criterion",
+ "criterion 0.7.0",
  "futures",
  "jemallocator",
  "msg-socket",
@@ -1243,7 +1284,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "aligned-vec",
  "backtrace",
  "cfg-if",
- "criterion",
+ "criterion 0.5.1",
  "findshlibs",
  "inferno",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c086fa12..9114f42e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ rcgen = "0.14"
 openssl = { version = "0.10" }
 
 # benchmarking & profiling
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.7", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 pprof = { version = "0.15", features = ["flamegraph", "criterion"] }
 
 # simulation