diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d76abcd2..b25ac28b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ name = "update_and_get_most_recent_version"
 required-features = ["git-https"]
 
 [dependencies]
-gix = { version = "0.73.0", default-features = false, features = [
+gix = { version = "0.74.1", default-features = false, features = [
     "max-performance-safe",
     "blocking-network-client",
     "revision",
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ toml = { version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["parse", "serd
 document-features = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-bytesize = "1.2.0"
+bytesize = "2.1.0"
 cap = { version = "0.1.2", features = ["stats"] }
 is_ci = "1.1.1"
 tempfile = "3.5.0"
diff --git a/examples/list_recent_versions.rs b/examples/list_recent_versions.rs
index 82a8da35..5dac5be4 100644
--- a/examples/list_recent_versions.rs
+++ b/examples/list_recent_versions.rs
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ fn fetch_crate(name: &str, sparse_index: &SparseIndex) -> Result<Option<Crate>,
 }
 
 fn names(name: &str) -> Result<impl Iterator<Item = String>, Box<dyn Error>> {
-    Ok(Names::new(name)
-        .ok_or_else(|| "Too many hyphens in crate name")?
-        .take(3))
+    Ok(Names::new(name).ok_or("Too many hyphens in crate name")?.take(3))
 }
 
 /// Create a request to the sparse `index` and parse the response with the side-effect of yielding
diff --git a/examples/sparse_http_reqwest.rs b/examples/sparse_http_reqwest.rs
index 5e47efa9..b19e2550 100644
--- a/examples/sparse_http_reqwest.rs
+++ b/examples/sparse_http_reqwest.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-use crates_index::SparseIndex;
+//!
+//! **important**:<br>
+//! dont forget to enable the **["blocking", "gzip"]** feature of **reqwest**
+//!
+//! command to run:<br>
+//! cargo run --example sparse_http_reqwest -F sparse
+//!
 
-///
-/// **important**:<br>
-/// dont forget to enable the **["blocking", "gzip"]** feature of **reqwest**
-///
-/// command to run:<br>
-/// cargo run --example sparse_http_reqwest -F sparse
-///
+use crates_index::SparseIndex;
 
 const CRATE_TO_FETCH: &str = "names";
 
diff --git a/examples/sparse_http_ureq.rs b/examples/sparse_http_ureq.rs
index 237a4325..ed1a3eba 100644
--- a/examples/sparse_http_ureq.rs
+++ b/examples/sparse_http_ureq.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
+//!
+//! command to run:<br>
+//! cargo run --example sparse_http_ureq -F sparse
+//!
 use crates_index::SparseIndex;
 
-///
-/// command to run:<br>
-/// cargo run --example sparse_http_ureq -F sparse
-///
-
 const CRATE_TO_FETCH: &str = "inferno";
 
 fn main() {
diff --git a/src/types.rs b/src/types.rs
index ae3db790..c0ebcf8e 100644
--- a/src/types.rs
+++ b/src/types.rs
@@ -238,10 +238,11 @@ impl Dependency {
 }
 
 /// Section in which this dependency was defined
-#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq, Hash)]
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq, Hash, Default)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum DependencyKind {
     /// Used at run time
+    #[default]
     Normal,
     /// Not fetched and not used, except for when used direclty in a workspace
     Dev,
@@ -249,12 +250,6 @@ pub enum DependencyKind {
     Build,
 }
 
-impl Default for DependencyKind {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self::Normal
-    }
-}
-
 /// A whole crate with all its versions
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct Crate {
@@ -277,8 +272,7 @@ impl Crate {
         let num_versions = bytes.split(is_newline).count();
         let mut versions = Vec::with_capacity(num_versions);
         for line in bytes.split(is_newline) {
-            let mut version: Version =
-                serde_json::from_slice(line).map_err(|e| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))?;
+            let mut version: Version = serde_json::from_slice(line).map_err(io::Error::other)?;
 
             version.build_data(dedupe);
 
@@ -330,10 +324,7 @@ impl Crate {
             // the PR we explicitly tell the user their version of cargo is suspect
             // these versions are so old (and specific) it shouldn't affect really anyone
             2 => {
-                return Err(io::Error::new(
-                    io::ErrorKind::Other,
-                    "potentially invalid version 2 cache entry found",
-                ));
+                return Err(io::Error::other("potentially invalid version 2 cache entry found"));
             }
             version => {
                 return Err(io::Error::new(
@@ -347,13 +338,10 @@ impl Crate {
         let update = iter.next().ok_or(io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof)?;
         if let Some(index_version) = index_version {
             if update != index_version.as_bytes() {
-                return Err(io::Error::new(
-                    io::ErrorKind::Other,
-                    format!(
-                        "cache out of date: current index ({index_version}) != cache ({})",
-                        String::from_utf8_lossy(update)
-                    ),
-                ));
+                return Err(io::Error::other(format!(
+                    "cache out of date: current index ({index_version}) != cache ({})",
+                    String::from_utf8_lossy(update)
+                )));
             }
         }