diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3e4389f..cc84587 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -668,9 +668,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "needletail"
-version = "0.6.3"
+version = "0.7.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6aa22e1ae8bce4ecf257e2475ef2046026caea08d66b1848d073fe7bc77e4351"
+checksum = "5b639de5c17babd608c3b4afb2a92f54c7cbc0c0985e7f53254f9ce53145c84c"
 dependencies = [
  "buffer-redux",
  "bytecount",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0364abd..3ca2922 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pyo3 = { version = "0.28", features = ["extension-module"] }
 # --no-default-features) can exclude it entirely.  emcc cannot link needletail
 # even without its C compression backends because it tries to produce a
 # standalone .wasm for every crate, which requires a `main` symbol.
-needletail = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, optional = true }
+needletail = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, optional = true }
 bio = "3.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 postcard = { version = "1", features = ["use-std"] }