diff --git a/src/rust/Cargo.toml b/src/rust/Cargo.toml
index cba226e0..903df03a 100644
--- a/src/rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ default = ["http"]
 http = ["http-range-client", "bytes", "reqwest"]
 
 [dependencies]
-flatbuffers = "23.5.26"
+flatbuffers = "24.3.25"
 byteorder = "1.5.0"
 geozero = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false }
-http-range-client = { version = "0.7.2", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["reqwest-async"] }
+http-range-client = { version = "0.8.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["reqwest-async"] }
 bytes = { version = "1.5.0", optional = true }
 log = "0.4.20"
 fallible-streaming-iterator = "0.1.9"
 tempfile = "3.8.1"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.22", optional = true }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.5", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 geozero = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = true }
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ hex = "0.4.3"
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.34.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 # One test needs SSL support; just use the default system bindings for that.
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.22", default-features = true }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.5", default-features = true }
 geo-types = "0.7.12"
-yocalhost = "0.3.0"
+yocalhost = "0.5.0"
 async-trait = "0.1.81"
 
 [[bench]]
diff --git a/src/rust/benches/http_read.rs b/src/rust/benches/http_read.rs
index 187f4253..5d7de05f 100644
--- a/src/rust/benches/http_read.rs
+++ b/src/rust/benches/http_read.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
     let bytes_per_second = {
         std::env::var("FGB_BENCH_BYTES_PER_SEC")
             .map(|str| {
-                str.parse::<usize>()
+                str.parse::<u64>()
                     .expect("FGB_BENCH_BYTES_PER_SEC must be an integer")
             })
             .unwrap_or(50_000_000 / 8)
diff --git a/src/rust/tests/http_read.rs b/src/rust/tests/http_read.rs
index 861304fd..db320342 100644
--- a/src/rust/tests/http_read.rs
+++ b/src/rust/tests/http_read.rs
@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ mod http {
         let url = "https://wrong.example.com/countries.fgb";
         let fgb = HttpFgbReader::open(url).await;
         let error_text = fgb.err().unwrap().to_string();
-        let expected_error_text = "error trying to connect";
+        let expected_error_text = "error sending request";
         assert!(
             error_text.contains(expected_error_text),
-            "expected to find {expected_error_text} in {error_text}"
+            "expected to find '{expected_error_text}' in '{error_text}'"
         );
     }
 }