diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e5249ca..88a92ce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ slab = "0.4.2"
 socket2 = { version = "0.3.12", features = ["pair", "unix"] }
 
 [dependencies.tokio]
-version = "0.2.19"
+version = "0.2"
 default-features = false
 features = ["rt-threaded"]
 optional = true
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index 1ad5539..c0f5d32 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ signal-hook = "0.1.13"
 smol = { path = "../", features = ["tokio02"] }
 surf = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.1", default-features = false, features = ["h1-client"] }
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-tokio = { version = "0.2.18", default-features = false }
+tokio = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 tungstenite = "0.10.1"
 url = "2.1.1"