diff --git a/axum/CHANGELOG.md b/axum/CHANGELOG.md
index bcfe2906..1ebd21d1 100644
--- a/axum/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/axum/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 # Unreleased
 
 - **change:** Update version of multer used internally for multipart ([#2433])
+- **change:** Update tokio-tungstenite to 0.21 ([#2435])
 
 [#2433]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/pull/2433
+[#2435]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/pull/2435
 
 # 0.7.2 (03. December, 2023)
 
diff --git a/axum/Cargo.toml b/axum/Cargo.toml
index 2bde57dd..3001c97f 100644
--- a/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ serde_path_to_error = { version = "0.1.8", optional = true }
 serde_urlencoded = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 sha1 = { version = "0.10", optional = true }
 tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.25.0", features = ["time"], optional = true }
-tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.20", optional = true }
+tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.21", optional = true }
 tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.tower-http]
diff --git a/examples/testing-websockets/Cargo.toml b/examples/testing-websockets/Cargo.toml
index 3c3513ad..842624c9 100644
--- a/examples/testing-websockets/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/testing-websockets/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ axum = { path = "../../axum", features = ["ws"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 hyper = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["full"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
-tokio-tungstenite = "0.20"
+tokio-tungstenite = "0.21"
diff --git a/examples/websockets/Cargo.toml b/examples/websockets/Cargo.toml
index 1cedfc27..f62a8b03 100644
--- a/examples/websockets/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/websockets/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ futures = "0.3"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["sink", "std"] }
 headers = "0.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
-tokio-tungstenite = "0.20"
+tokio-tungstenite = "0.21"
 tower = { version = "0.4", features = ["util"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["fs", "trace"] }
 tracing = "0.1"