diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2b1f708a..eafd5d9c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/sea-orm"
 repository = "https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm"
 categories = ["database"]
 keywords = ["async", "orm", "mysql", "postgres", "sqlite"]
-rust-version = "1.65"
+rust-version = "1.81"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 features = ["default", "sqlx-all", "mock", "proxy", "runtime-async-std-native-tls", "postgres-array", "sea-orm-internal"]