diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fddda0d..05d7485 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -434,9 +434,9 @@ checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.7.2"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "428d9aa8fbc0670b7b8d6030a7fadd0f86151cae55e4dbbece15f3780a3dfaf3"
+checksum = "325918d6fe32f23b19878fe4b34794ae41fc19ddbe53b10571a4874d44ffd39b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "caret"
@@ -3149,9 +3149,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "edc5f74e248dc973e0dbb7b74c7e0d6fcc301c694ff50049504004ef4d0cdcd9"
+checksum = "be4bf6fecd69fcdede0ec680aaf474cdab988f9de6bc73d3758f0160e3b7025a"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "log",
@@ -4283,9 +4283,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "18e5b8366ee7a95b16d32197d0b2604b43a0be89dc5fac9f8e96ccafbaedda8a"
+checksum = "413083a99c579593656008130e29255e54dcaae495be556cc26888f211648c24"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "bytes",
@@ -4297,7 +4297,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "sha1",
- "thiserror 1.0.64",
+ "thiserror 2.0.9",
  "utf-8",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7fbf67f..ad4bc65 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ url = { version = "2.5", default-features = false }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["net", "time"] }
 tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = ["ring", "tls12"] } # Required to enable the necessary features for tokio-tungstenite
 tokio-socks = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
-tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.24", features = ["rustls-tls-webpki-roots"] }
+tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.26", features = ["rustls-tls-webpki-roots"] }
 
 # TOR deps
 arti-client = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = ["onion-service-client", "rustls", "static-sqlite", "tokio"], optional = true }
diff --git a/src/message.rs b/src/message.rs
index d77cee7..0c9b093 100644
--- a/src/message.rs
+++ b/src/message.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Yuki Kishimoto
 // Distributed under the MIT software license
 
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-use std::borrow::Cow;
-
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 use tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::protocol::frame::coding::CloseCode;
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
@@ -72,11 +69,11 @@ pub enum Message {
 // }
 
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-impl From<CloseFrame> for TungsteniteCloseFrame<'_> {
+impl From<CloseFrame> for TungsteniteCloseFrame {
     fn from(frame: CloseFrame) -> Self {
         Self {
             code: CloseCode::from(frame.code),
-            reason: Cow::Owned(frame.reason),
+            reason: frame.reason.into(),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -85,21 +82,21 @@ impl From<CloseFrame> for TungsteniteCloseFrame<'_> {
 impl From<Message> for TungsteniteMessage {
     fn from(msg: Message) -> Self {
         match msg {
-            Message::Text(text) => Self::Text(text),
-            Message::Binary(data) => Self::Binary(data),
-            Message::Ping(data) => Self::Ping(data),
-            Message::Pong(data) => Self::Pong(data),
+            Message::Text(text) => Self::Text(text.into()),
+            Message::Binary(data) => Self::Binary(data.into()),
+            Message::Ping(data) => Self::Ping(data.into()),
+            Message::Pong(data) => Self::Pong(data.into()),
             Message::Close(frame) => Self::Close(frame.map(|f| f.into())),
         }
     }
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-impl From<TungsteniteCloseFrame<'_>> for CloseFrame {
-    fn from(frame: TungsteniteCloseFrame<'_>) -> Self {
+impl From<TungsteniteCloseFrame> for CloseFrame {
+    fn from(frame: TungsteniteCloseFrame) -> Self {
         Self {
             code: frame.code.into(),
-            reason: frame.reason.into_owned(),
+            reason: frame.reason.to_string(),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -108,10 +105,10 @@ impl From<TungsteniteCloseFrame<'_>> for CloseFrame {
 impl From<TungsteniteMessage> for Message {
     fn from(msg: TungsteniteMessage) -> Self {
         match msg {
-            TungsteniteMessage::Text(text) => Self::Text(text),
-            TungsteniteMessage::Binary(data) => Self::Binary(data),
-            TungsteniteMessage::Ping(data) => Self::Ping(data),
-            TungsteniteMessage::Pong(data) => Self::Pong(data),
+            TungsteniteMessage::Text(text) => Self::Text(text.to_string()),
+            TungsteniteMessage::Binary(data) => Self::Binary(data.to_vec()),
+            TungsteniteMessage::Ping(data) => Self::Ping(data.to_vec()),
+            TungsteniteMessage::Pong(data) => Self::Pong(data.to_vec()),
             TungsteniteMessage::Close(frame) => Self::Close(frame.map(|f| f.into())),
             // SAFETY: from tungstenite docs: "you're not going to get this value while reading the message".
             // SAFETY: this conversion is used only in Stream trait, so when reading the messages.