diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ffef2ae..a6bb376 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -151,13 +151,13 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "axum"
-version = "0.7.9"
+version = "0.8.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "edca88bc138befd0323b20752846e6587272d3b03b0343c8ea28a6f819e6e71f"
+checksum = "8b52af3cb4058c895d37317bb27508dccc8e5f2d39454016b297bf4a400597b8"
 dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
  "axum-core",
  "bytes",
+ "form_urlencoded",
  "futures-util",
  "http 1.4.0",
  "http-body",
@@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "mime",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "rustversion",
- "serde",
+ "serde_core",
  "serde_json",
  "serde_path_to_error",
  "serde_urlencoded",
@@ -184,19 +183,17 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "axum-core"
-version = "0.4.5"
+version = "0.5.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09f2bd6146b97ae3359fa0cc6d6b376d9539582c7b4220f041a33ec24c226199"
+checksum = "08c78f31d7b1291f7ee735c1c6780ccde7785daae9a9206026862dab7d8792d1"
 dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
  "bytes",
- "futures-util",
+ "futures-core",
  "http 1.4.0",
  "http-body",
  "http-body-util",
  "mime",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "rustversion",
  "sync_wrapper",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
@@ -1452,9 +1449,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "matchit"
-version = "0.7.3"
+version = "0.8.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0e7465ac9959cc2b1404e8e2367b43684a6d13790fe23056cc8c6c5a6b7bcb94"
+checksum = "47e1ffaa40ddd1f3ed91f717a33c8c0ee23fff369e3aa8772b9605cc1d22f4c3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e543e14..52c900d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ tokio-rustls = "0.26.4"
 webpki-roots = "1.0.6"
 
 # HTTP server (gateway) — replaces raw TCP for proper HTTP/1.1 compliance
-axum = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = ["http1", "json", "tokio", "query"] }
+axum = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["http1", "json", "tokio", "query"] }
 tower = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
 tower-http = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = ["limit", "timeout"] }
 http-body-util = "0.1"