diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c8901e4f..8dbf58dc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ flate2 = "1.0.5"
 streaming-stats =  "0.2.2"
 GSL = "7.0.0"
 bio-types = ">=0.5.1"
-derive-new = "0.5"
+derive-new = "0.6"
 reqwest = "0.9"
 regex = "1.3"
 tera = "1"