diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index aed6ec0..21b805e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1176,9 +1176,9 @@ checksum = "2b15c43186be67a4fd63bee50d0303afffcef381492ebe2c5d87f324e1b8815c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.12.8"
+version = "0.12.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f713147fbe92361e52392c73b8c9e48c04c6625bce969ef54dc901e58e042a7b"
+checksum = "a77c62af46e79de0a562e1a9849205ffcb7fc1238876e9bd743357570e04046f"
 dependencies = [
  "async-compression",
  "base64",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8d5d7b7..8acbfc0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ log = "0.4.22"
 mdsf = { path = "./mdsf", features = ["json-schema"] }
 once_cell = "1.20.2"
 regex = "1.11.1"
-reqwest = { version = "0.12.8", default-features = false, features = [
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.9", default-features = false, features = [
   "blocking",
   "brotli",
   "charset",