diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7983d278c..26019e9d4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1494,6 +1494,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "io-uring"
+version = "0.7.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b86e202f00093dcba4275d4636b93ef9dd75d025ae560d2521b45ea28ab49013"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.1",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ipnet"
 version = "2.11.0"
@@ -3138,17 +3149,19 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.45.1"
+version = "1.46.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "75ef51a33ef1da925cea3e4eb122833cb377c61439ca401b770f54902b806779"
+checksum = "1140bb80481756a8cbe10541f37433b459c5aa1e727b4c020fbfebdc25bf3ec4"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
+ "io-uring",
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
+ "slab",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
diff --git a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
index 3dfd9482b..17bab1b56 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ opentelemetry = "0.30.0"
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["default", "grpc-tonic"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.30"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.45.1", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.46.0", features = ["full"] }
 criterion = "0.6.0"
 tracing-chrome = "0.7.2"
 metrics-util = "0.20.0"