diff --git a/postgres-protocol/Cargo.toml b/postgres-protocol/Cargo.toml
index 4ea70f0a..8fbd0093 100644
--- a/postgres-protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/postgres-protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres"
 readme = "../README.md"
 
 [dependencies]
-base64 = "0.11"
+base64 = "0.12"
 byteorder = "1.0"
 bytes = "0.5"
 fallible-iterator = "0.2"