diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6a03f3ef2..ffbd0aa9e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## 0.5.1 - 2020-02-04
+
+ - Update sqlx-rt to 0.3.
+
 ## 0.5.0 - 2020-02-04
 
 ### Changes
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index beea876d5..c2a669b37 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2456,7 +2456,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sqlx-rt"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-rt",
  "async-native-tls",
diff --git a/sqlx-bench/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-bench/Cargo.toml
index de50a6734..4f6ebcc10 100644
--- a/sqlx-bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ criterion = "0.3.3"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"
 once_cell = "1.4"
 sqlx = { version = "0.5", path = "../", default-features = false }
-sqlx-rt = { version = "0.2.0", path = "../sqlx-rt", default-features = false }
+sqlx-rt = { version = "0.3.0", path = "../sqlx-rt", default-features = false }
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "pg_pool"
diff --git a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
index 053a85695..b1bbb6f27 100644
--- a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ offline = [ "serde", "either/serde" ]
 [dependencies]
 ahash = "0.6.2"
 atoi = "0.4.0"
-sqlx-rt = { path = "../sqlx-rt", version = "0.2.0" }
+sqlx-rt = { path = "../sqlx-rt", version = "0.3.0" }
 base64 = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false, optional = true, features = [ "std" ] }
 bigdecimal_ = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true, package = "bigdecimal" }
 rust_decimal = { version = "1.8.1", optional = true }
diff --git a/sqlx-macros/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-macros/Cargo.toml
index fd1518f7e..e763f89be 100644
--- a/sqlx-macros/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ either = "1.5.3"
 once_cell = { version = "1.5.2", optional = true }
 proc-macro2 = { version = "1.0.9", default-features = false }
 sqlx-core = { version = "0.5", default-features = false, path = "../sqlx-core" }
-sqlx-rt = { version = "0.2.0", default-features = false, path = "../sqlx-rt" }
+sqlx-rt = { version = "0.3.0", default-features = false, path = "../sqlx-rt" }
 serde = { version = "1.0.111", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.30", features = ["preserve_order"], optional = true }
 sha2 = { version = "0.9.1", optional = true }