diff --git a/cli/Cargo.toml b/cli/Cargo.toml
index d9ae82b9..71f83092 100644
--- a/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/containers/bootc"
 readme = "README.md"
 publish = false
-# For now don't bump this above what is currently shipped in RHEL9.
-rust-version = "1.75.0"
 default-run = "bootc"
 
 # See https://github.com/coreos/cargo-vendor-filterer
diff --git a/lib/Cargo.toml b/lib/Cargo.toml
index a8eb8798..95354c1e 100644
--- a/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ name = "bootc-lib"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/containers/bootc"
 version = "1.1.4"
-# For now don't bump this above what is currently shipped in RHEL9;
-# also keep in sync with the version in cli.
-rust-version = "1.75.0"
+# In general we try to keep this pinned to what's in the latest RHEL9.
+# However right now, we bumped to 1.82 as that's what composefs-rs uses.
+rust-version = "1.82.0"
 
 include = ["/src", "LICENSE-APACHE", "LICENSE-MIT"]
 
diff --git a/ostree-ext/Cargo.toml b/ostree-ext/Cargo.toml
index a5da3a0a..097e16e2 100644
--- a/ostree-ext/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ostree-ext/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ name = "ostree-ext"
 readme = "../README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree-rs-ext"
 version = "0.15.3"
-rust-version = "1.74.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 # Note that we re-export the oci-spec types