diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6a08831db6..1d9edc1eb2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hotshot-types",
  "hotshot-utils",
  "hotshot-web-server",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools 0.11.0",
  "jf-primitives",
  "libp2p",
  "libp2p-identity",
@@ -3453,6 +3453,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b1c173a5686ce8bfa551b3563d0c2170bf24ca44da99c7ca4bfdab5418c3fe57"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "0.4.8"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2c871f1adb..411aeede31 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ hotshot-types = { path = "./types", version = "0.1.0", default-features = false
 hotshot-utils = { path = "./utils" }
 hotshot-task = { path = "./task", version = "0.1.0", default-features = false }
 hotshot-task-impls = { path = "./task-impls", version = "0.1.0", default-features = false }
-itertools = "0.10"
+itertools = "0.11"
 hotshot-primitives = { git = "https://github.com/EspressoSystems/hotshot-primitives",  branch = 'hotshot-compat'} # rev = "4aee90c" for 'hotshot-compat'
 jf-primitives = { git = "https://github.com/EspressoSystems/jellyfish", branch = 'hotshot-compat'} # rev = "470a833" for branch = 'hotshot-compat'
 libp2p-swarm-derive = { version = "=0.33.0" }