diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d471998..30f2caa 100755
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ required-features = ["retail_game_testing"]
 hmac-sha512 = "1"
 
 # used while rust doesn't have native benchmarking capability
-brunch = { version = "0.5.3", default-features = false }
+brunch = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 
 # used for testing our crc implementations
 crc = "3"
@@ -43,10 +43,11 @@ patch_testing = []
 # amazing binary parsing/writing library
 binrw = { version = "0.14", features = ["std"], default-features = false }
 
+# for logging
 tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["std"], default-features = false }
 
 # used for zlib compression in sqpack files
-libz-rs-sys = { version = "0.4", features = ["std", "rust-allocator"], default-features = false }
+libz-rs-sys = { version = "0.5", features = ["std", "rust-allocator"], default-features = false }
 
 # needed for half-float support which FFXIV uses in its model data
 half = { version = "2", features = ["std"], default-features = false }
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 61d40b0..4a527ab 100755
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ version = 2
 allow = [
     "MIT",
     "Apache-2.0",
-    "Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception",
     "GPL-3.0",
     "Unicode-3.0", # used for unicode-ident
     "Zlib"