diff --git a/metadata/Cargo.toml b/metadata/Cargo.toml
index 6737037b60..1bd42b470e 100644
--- a/metadata/Cargo.toml
+++ b/metadata/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ sp-core = { version = "6.0.0"  }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bitvec = { version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
-criterion = "0.3"
+criterion = "0.4"
 scale-info = { version = "2.0.0", features = ["bit-vec"] }
 
 [lib]