diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 741e00f..edf2dd2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 [[package]]
 name = "activitystreams"
-version = "0.5.0-alpha.7"
+version = "0.5.0-alpha.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a9e82b6649331396e8bd17547a3b775ba7f530a30d574d43cf1d373899dafd94"
+checksum = "78489a7b8d92f8c23f3dc1b69da158c0a4ca02edf0f4007955fafbca667275dd"
 dependencies = [
  "activitystreams-derive",
  "chrono",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6859a94..3aad0ad 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ actix = "0.10.0-alpha.2"
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"
 actix-web = { version = "3.0.0-alpha.1", features = ["rustls"] }
 actix-webfinger = { version = "0.3.0-alpha.2" }
-activitystreams = "0.5.0-alpha.7"
+activitystreams = "0.5.0-alpha.8"
 base64 = "0.12"
 bb8-postgres = "0.4.0"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"