diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d5d4f4a438..9b0ee61e90 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5128,10 +5128,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-journald"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7c35f4a6b4b2d00511aa9e17d4efc74d4c3ddc5a5416f58a5de25c30bfeb0307"
+checksum = "ba316a74e8fc3c3896a850dba2375928a9fa171b085ecddfc7c054d39970f3fd"
 dependencies = [
+ "libc",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
diff --git a/explorer/Cargo.toml b/explorer/Cargo.toml
index 68aea4d18a..4684d0dbc5 100644
--- a/explorer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/explorer/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ warp = {version = "0.3.1", features = ["tls"]}
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
 tracing-gelf = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
-tracing-journald = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true }
+tracing-journald = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }
diff --git a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
index 40289f06f9..4ae796fb8d 100644
--- a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
 tracing-gelf = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 # TODO unpin this when cross for ARM targets is fixed: https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/pull/591
-tracing-journald = { version = "=0.2.0", optional = true }
+tracing-journald = { version = "=0.3.0", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json", "time"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.15", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }