diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d6b104ec..d284faa4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "equator",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "alloca"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5a7d05ea6aea7e9e64d25b9156ba2fee3fdd659e34e41063cd2fc7cd020d7f4"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "anes"
 version = "0.1.6"
@@ -282,10 +291,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "cast",
  "ciborium",
  "clap",
- "criterion-plot",
- "futures",
+ "criterion-plot 0.5.0",
  "is-terminal",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
  "num-traits",
  "once_cell",
  "oorandom",
@@ -296,6 +304,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
  "serde_json",
  "tinytemplate",
+ "walkdir",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "criterion"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a0dfe5e9e71bdcf4e4954f7d14da74d1cdb92a3a07686452d1509652684b1aab"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloca",
+ "anes",
+ "cast",
+ "ciborium",
+ "clap",
+ "criterion-plot 0.8.0",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
+ "num-traits",
+ "oorandom",
+ "page_size",
+ "plotters",
+ "rayon",
+ "regex",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "tinytemplate",
  "tokio",
  "walkdir",
 ]
@@ -307,7 +340,17 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6b50826342786a51a89e2da3a28f1c32b06e387201bc2d19791f622c673706b1"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "criterion-plot"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5de36c2bee19fba779808f92bf5d9b0fa5a40095c277aba10c458a12b35d21d6"
+dependencies = [
+ "cast",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -690,6 +733,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "413ee7dfc52ee1a4949ceeb7dbc8a33f2d6c088194d9f922fb8318faf1f01186"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.15"
@@ -833,7 +885,7 @@ name = "msg"
 version = "0.1.3"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "criterion",
+ "criterion 0.8.0",
  "futures",
  "msg-socket",
  "msg-transport",
@@ -1040,6 +1092,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "page_size"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "30d5b2194ed13191c1999ae0704b7839fb18384fa22e49b57eeaa97d79ce40da"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "parking_lot"
 version = "0.12.5"
@@ -1225,7 +1287,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "aligned-vec",
  "backtrace",
  "cfg-if",
- "criterion",
+ "criterion 0.5.1",
  "findshlibs",
  "inferno",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index afd5f00e..5315fd5f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ rcgen = "0.14"
 openssl = { version = "0.10" }
 
 # benchmarking & profiling
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 pprof = { version = "0.15", features = ["flamegraph", "criterion"] }
 
 # simulation