diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e0b7980..0689f62 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
 # new flexi_logger failed on rustc 1.75
-flexi_logger = { version = "0.30", features = ["async"] }
+flexi_logger = { version = "0.27", features = ["async"] }
 protobuf = { version = "3.7", features = ["with-bytes"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.44", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["full"] }