diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 13c5635..b8ea0d6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "batlehub-config",
  "batlehub-core",
  "bytes",
- "bzip2 0.4.4",
+ "bzip2",
  "chrono",
  "ed25519-dalek",
  "flate2",
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "batlehub-core",
  "batlehub-web",
  "bytes",
- "bzip2 0.4.4",
+ "bzip2",
  "chrono",
  "flate2",
  "futures",
@@ -1317,16 +1317,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bzip2"
-version = "0.4.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bdb116a6ef3f6c3698828873ad02c3014b3c85cadb88496095628e3ef1e347f8"
-dependencies = [
- "bzip2-sys",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bzip2"
 version = "0.6.1"
@@ -1336,16 +1326,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libbz2-rs-sys",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bzip2-sys"
-version = "0.1.13+1.0.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "225bff33b2141874fe80d71e07d6eec4f85c5c216453dd96388240f96e1acc14"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "pkg-config",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "castaway"
 version = "0.2.4"
@@ -7242,7 +7222,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2d04a6b5381502aa6087c94c669499eb1602eb9c5e8198e534de571f7154809b"
 dependencies = [
  "aes",
- "bzip2 0.6.1",
+ "bzip2",
  "constant_time_eq",
  "crc32fast",
  "deflate64",
diff --git a/crates/adapters/Cargo.toml b/crates/adapters/Cargo.toml
index aaeb082..cc6758a 100644
--- a/crates/adapters/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/adapters/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ batlehub-config = { path = "../config" }
 batlehub-core = { path = "../core" }
 bytes.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
-bzip2 = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
+bzip2 = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1", optional = true }
 zstd = { version = "0.13", optional = true }
 # Deb/RPM repository hosting (all pure-Rust; none pull the banned `rsa` crate).
diff --git a/crates/examples/Cargo.toml b/crates/examples/Cargo.toml
index 96d0afa..13ea56e 100644
--- a/crates/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ uuid.workspace    = true
 metrics-exporter-prometheus.workspace = true
 
 # payload construction for local_registry tests
-bzip2  = "0.4"
+bzip2  = "0.6"
 flate2 = "1"
 tar    = "0.4"
 zip    = "8"