diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
index 4158465b40..664948701e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
@@ -53721,22 +53721,21 @@ accessors.")
 (define-public rust-rayon-1
   (package
     (name "rust-rayon")
-    (version "1.6.1")
+    (version "1.8.0")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
        (uri (crate-uri "rayon" version))
        (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
        (sha256
-        (base32 "1dsr0yyfgdsg8ggh37kq678mfa5j3js6p16ksb7knazhml9s5cvd"))))
+        (base32 "1cfdnvchf7j4cpha5jkcrrsr61li9i9lp5ak7xdq6d3pvc1xn9ww"))))
     (build-system cargo-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:cargo-inputs
        (("rust-either" ,rust-either-1)
         ("rust-rayon-core" ,rust-rayon-core-1))
        #:cargo-development-inputs
-       (("rust-lazy-static" ,rust-lazy-static-1)
-        ("rust-rand" ,rust-rand-0.8)
+       (("rust-rand" ,rust-rand-0.8)
         ("rust-rand-xorshift" ,rust-rand-xorshift-0.3))))
     (home-page "https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon")
     (synopsis "Simple work-stealing parallelism for Rust")