diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fd25af61..b3dfdeea 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ net2 = { version = "0.2.32", optional = true }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 matches = "0.1"
 num_cpus = "1.0"
-pretty_env_logger = "0.3"
+pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
 spmc = "0.3"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 4c5ce61a..a8308993 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Most of these examples use these dependencies:
 [dependencies]
 hyper = "0.13"
 tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["full"] }
-pretty_env_logger = "0.3"
+pretty_env_logger = "0.4"
 ```
 
 ## Getting Started