diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e9d63266a116a..37d9f4fb48078 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1412,6 +1412,25 @@ version = "2.0.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1e186cfbae8084e513daff4240b4797e342f988cecda4fb6c939150f96315fd8"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "is-docker"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "928bae27f42bc99b60d9ac7334e3a21d10ad8f1835a4e12ec3ec0464765ed1b3"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "is-wsl"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "173609498df190136aa7dea1a91db051746d339e18476eed5ca40521f02d7aa5"
+dependencies = [
+ "is-docker",
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.6"
@@ -1614,10 +1633,12 @@ checksum = "dd8b5dd2ae5ed71462c540258bedcb51965123ad7e7ccf4b9a8cafaa4a63576d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "open"
-version = "4.0.1"
+version = "5.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "075c5203b3a2b698bc72c6c10b1f6263182135751d5013ea66e8a4b3d0562a43"
+checksum = "cfabf1927dce4d6fdf563d63328a0a506101ced3ec780ca2135747336c98cef8"
 dependencies = [
+ "is-wsl",
+ "libc",
  "pathdiff",
 ]
 
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index dcf1b4ad1c09b..1697851a3ee6e 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ pulldown-cmark = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 # file type detection
 content_inspector = "0.2.4"
 # openning URLs
-open = "4.0.0"
-url = "2.3.1"
+open = "5.0.0"
+url = "2.4.1"
 
 # config
 toml = "0.7"
diff --git a/helix-view/Cargo.toml b/helix-view/Cargo.toml
index cb14e0c6bde34..a5218b9ac93c9 100644
--- a/helix-view/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-view/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ helix-vcs = { version = "0.6", path = "../helix-vcs" }
 
 # Conversion traits
 once_cell = "1.18"
-url = "2.3.1"
+url = "2.4.1"
 
 arc-swap = { version = "1.6.0" }