diff --git a/actix-files/CHANGES.md b/actix-files/CHANGES.md
index c4d56010f..73712b5e0 100644
--- a/actix-files/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-files/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Changes
 
 ## Unreleased - 2020-xx-xx
+* Bump `v_htmlescape` to `0.12`
 
 
 ## 0.4.1 - 2020-11-24
diff --git a/actix-files/Cargo.toml b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
index f7d32f8ec..6e4426fb0 100644
--- a/actix-files/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 mime = "0.3"
 mime_guess = "2.0.1"
 percent-encoding = "2.1"
-v_htmlescape = "0.11"
+v_htmlescape = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["bytes-buf-tokio3"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"