diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3a994366..559eaf6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
- "tokio-util 0.7.0",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.1",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-futures",
  "url",
@@ -3859,14 +3859,13 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.7.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "64910e1b9c1901aaf5375561e35b9c057d95ff41a44ede043a03e09279eabaf1"
+checksum = "0edfdeb067411dba2044da6d1cb2df793dd35add7888d73c16e3381ded401764"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-sink",
- "log",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
 ]
diff --git a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
index f0b5bfe6..74299cd6 100644
--- a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ once_cell = "1.10.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 # tokio
-tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", default-features = false, features = ["io"], optional = true }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.1", default-features = false, features = ["io"], optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.5", default-features = false, optional = true }
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.17.1", default-features = false, features = ["connect"], optional = true }