diff --git a/crates/common/Cargo.toml b/crates/common/Cargo.toml
index c4088b3..0bf35b0 100644
--- a/crates/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ tracing-appender = "0.2"
 atty = "0.2"
 kdl = "6"
 # gRPC/protobuf runtime for Runner API
-tonic = { version = "0.12", features = ["transport"] }
-prost = "0.13"
+tonic = { version = "0.14", features = ["transport"] }
+prost = "0.14"
 # messaging + serialization
 lapin = { version = "3", default-features = false, features = ["rustls"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ uuid = { version = "1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["serde", "macros"] }
 futures-util = "0.3"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
+tonic-prost = "0.14.2"
 
 [build-dependencies]
-tonic-build = "0.12"
+tonic-prost-build = { version = "0.14", features = ["transport"] }
diff --git a/crates/common/build.rs b/crates/common/build.rs
index 5ebe68a..1d1d359 100644
--- a/crates/common/build.rs
+++ b/crates/common/build.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 fn main() {
     // Compile gRPC protobufs for Runner <-> Orchestrator
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=proto/runner.proto");
-    tonic_build::configure()
+    tonic_prost_build::configure()
         .build_server(true)
         .compile_protos(&["proto/runner.proto"], &["proto"])
         .expect("failed to compile runner proto");
diff --git a/crates/forge-integration/Cargo.toml b/crates/forge-integration/Cargo.toml
index 9acc552..b643a7c 100644
--- a/crates/forge-integration/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/forge-integration/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ miette = { version = "7", features = ["fancy"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "signal"] }
 # HTTP + Webhooks
-axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["macros"] }
+axum = { version = "0.8", features = ["macros"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 # Signature verification
diff --git a/crates/orchestrator/Cargo.toml b/crates/orchestrator/Cargo.toml
index 79af930..a8d515d 100644
--- a/crates/orchestrator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/orchestrator/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls-
 bytes = "1"
 path-absolutize = "3"
 # gRPC server
-tonic = { version = "0.12", features = ["transport"] }
+tonic = { version = "0.14", features = ["transport"] }
 # Compression/decompression
 zstd = "0.13"
 # DB (optional basic persistence)
diff --git a/crates/workflow-runner/Cargo.toml b/crates/workflow-runner/Cargo.toml
index dc6f657..061aa93 100644
--- a/crates/workflow-runner/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/workflow-runner/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "process", "fs
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
 # gRPC client
-tonic = { version = "0.12", features = ["transport"] }
+tonic = { version = "0.14", features = ["transport"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"