diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ad0bba7b3e..f6edf59dc4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2222,7 +2222,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "solana-netutil 0.14.0",
  "solana-sdk 0.14.0",
  "untrusted 0.6.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "ws 0.7.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "ws 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3302,23 +3302,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi-util 0.1.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ws"
-version = "0.7.9"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-dependencies = [
- "byteorder 1.3.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "bytes 0.4.12 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "httparse 1.3.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "log 0.4.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "mio 0.6.16 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "mio-extras 2.0.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "rand 0.4.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "sha1 0.6.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "slab 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "url 1.7.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ws"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -3668,7 +3651,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum winapi-util 0.1.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7168bab6e1daee33b4557efd0e95d5ca70a03706d39fa5f3fe7a236f584b03c9"
 "checksum winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
 "checksum wincolor 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "561ed901ae465d6185fa7864d63fbd5720d0ef718366c9a4dc83cf6170d7e9ba"
-"checksum ws 0.7.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "329d3e6dd450a9c5c73024e1047f0be7e24121a68484eb0b5368977bee3cf8c3"
 "checksum ws 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "3dcacc3ba9c1ee43e3fd0846a25489ff22f8906e90775d51b6edbae4b95d71f4"
 "checksum ws2_32-sys 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d59cefebd0c892fa2dd6de581e937301d8552cb44489cdff035c6187cb63fa5e"
 "checksum xattr 0.2.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "244c3741f4240ef46274860397c7c74e50eb23624996930e484c16679633a54c"
diff --git a/bench-exchange/Cargo.toml b/bench-exchange/Cargo.toml
index 335534284d..9d9afc2c02 100644
--- a/bench-exchange/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bench-exchange/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ solana-logger = { path = "../logger", version = "0.14.0" }
 solana-metrics = { path = "../metrics", version = "0.14.0" }
 solana-netutil = { path = "../netutil", version = "0.14.0" }
 solana-sdk = { path = "../sdk", version = "0.14.0" }
-ws = "0.7.9"
+ws = "0.8.0"
 untrusted = "0.6.2"
 
 [features]