diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a3bc1b4..9a2806d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ name = "fastnn"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-rand = "0.8"        # weight init, dropout masks, shuffling
+rand = "0.10"        # weight init, dropout masks, shuffling
 rand_distr = "0.4"  # normal distribution
 rayon = "1.8"       # data parallelism on the CPU paths
 libm = "0.2"        # erff, for exact GELU