diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f3b2bc8e..00d8c475 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -990,9 +990,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "smallvec"
-version = "1.8.1"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cc88c725d61fc6c3132893370cac4a0200e3fedf5da8331c570664b1987f5ca2"
+checksum = "2fd0db749597d91ff862fd1d55ea87f7855a744a8425a64695b6fca237d1dad1"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "smartstring"
diff --git a/helix-core/Cargo.toml b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
index 3ce0e483..b7a1f332 100644
--- a/helix-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ integration = []
 helix-loader = { version = "0.6", path = "../helix-loader" }
 
 ropey = { version = "1.5", default-features = false, features = ["simd"] }
-smallvec = "1.8"
+smallvec = "1.9"
 smartstring = "1.0.1"
 unicode-segmentation = "1.9"
 unicode-width = "0.1"
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index 4c2c2da7..c94e6502 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@ signal-hook-tokio = { version = "0.3", features = ["futures-v0_3"] }
 helix-loader = { version = "0.6", path = "../helix-loader" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-smallvec = "1.8"
+smallvec = "1.9"
 indoc = "1.0.6"
 tempfile = "3.3.0"