diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ff87f662..4e1cd461 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 [dependencies]
-base64 = "0.13"
+base64 = "0.21"
 data-encoding = "2"
 dirs = { version = "3.0", optional = true }
 futures = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 http = "0.2"
 hyperx = "1"
-jsonwebtoken = { version = "7", optional = true }
+jsonwebtoken = { version = "8", optional = true }
 log = "0.4"
 mime = "0.3"
 percent-encoding = "2"
diff --git a/src/content.rs b/src/content.rs
index 74dcba9b..1276194d 100644
--- a/src/content.rs
+++ b/src/content.rs
@@ -248,15 +248,19 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for DecodedContents {
             where
                 E: de::Error,
             {
+                use base64::engine::{Engine, general_purpose::STANDARD};
                 // GitHub wraps the base64 to column 60. The base64 crate
                 // doesn't handle whitespace, nor does it take a reader, so we
                 // must unfortunately allocate again and remove all new lines.
                 let v = v.replace("\n", "");
 
-                let decoded = base64::decode_config(&v, base64::STANDARD).map_err(|e| match e {
+                let decoded = STANDARD.decode(&v).map_err(|e| match e {
                     base64::DecodeError::InvalidLength => {
                         E::invalid_length(v.len(), &"invalid base64 length")
                     }
+                    base64::DecodeError::InvalidPadding => {
+                        E::invalid_length(v.len(), &"invalid base64 padding")
+                    }
                     base64::DecodeError::InvalidByte(offset, byte) => E::invalid_value(
                         de::Unexpected::Bytes(&[byte]),
                         &format!("valid base64 character at offset {}", offset).as_str(),