diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9888cce52bb..88b881232ed 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4998,9 +4998,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "8.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b1e7d90385b59f0a6bf3d3b757f3ca4ece2048265d70db20a2016043d4509a40"
+checksum = "810294a8a4a0853d4118e3b94bb079905f2107c7fe979d8f0faae98765eb6378"
 dependencies = [
  "rust-embed-impl",
  "rust-embed-utils",
@@ -5009,9 +5009,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-impl"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "8.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3c3d8c6fd84090ae348e63a84336b112b5c3918b3bf0493a581f7bd8ee623c29"
+checksum = "bfc144a1273124a67b8c1d7cd19f5695d1878b31569c0512f6086f0f4676604e"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -5023,9 +5023,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-utils"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "8.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "873feff8cb7bf86fdf0a71bb21c95159f4e4a37dd7a4bd1855a940909b583ada"
+checksum = "816ccd4875431253d6bb54b804bcff4369cbde9bae33defde25fdf6c2ef91d40"
 dependencies = [
  "globset",
  "sha2 0.10.8",
@@ -5419,9 +5419,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shellexpand"
-version = "2.1.2"
+version = "3.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7ccc8076840c4da029af4f87e4e8daeb0fca6b87bbb02e10cb60b791450e11e4"
+checksum = "da03fa3b94cc19e3ebfc88c4229c49d8f08cdbd1228870a45f0ffdf84988e14b"
 dependencies = [
  "dirs",
 ]
diff --git a/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml b/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
index c94baf5f7ba..e805d7e22a6 100644
--- a/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 axum = "0.7.1"
 libp2p = { path = "../../libp2p", features = [ "ed25519", "macros", "ping", "tokio"] }
 libp2p-webrtc = { workspace = true, features = ["tokio"] }
-rust-embed = { version = "8.0.0", features = ["include-exclude", "interpolate-folder-path"] }
+rust-embed = { version = "8.1.0", features = ["include-exclude", "interpolate-folder-path"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.35", features = ["macros", "net", "rt", "signal"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["compat"] }
 tower = "0.4"
diff --git a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
index b09371fc8b1..cf9c655ce72 100644
--- a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ mime_guess = "2.0"
 redis = { version = "0.23.3", default-features = false, features = [
     "tokio-comp",
 ] }
-rust-embed = "8.0"
+rust-embed = "8.1"
 serde_json = "1"
 thirtyfour = "=0.32.0-rc.8" # https://github.com/stevepryde/thirtyfour/issues/169
 tokio = { version = "1.35.0", features = ["full"] }