diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 76e30f9cc4..1476eb9cf8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,10 +61,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.103", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 petgraph = { version ="0.6", optional = true }
 pp-rs = { version = "0.2.1", optional = true }
 hexf-parse = { version = "0.2.1", optional = true }
-# update unicode-xid to the next version since it has been updated to unicode v14
-# (but has no release that includes it yet)
-# https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-xid/pull/27
-unicode-xid = { version = "0.2.2", optional = true }
+unicode-xid = { version = "0.2.3", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bincode = "1"