diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index feec43da..0e0f2089 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,27 +20,28 @@ futures = "0.3.4"
 reqwest = "0.10.4"
 http = "0.2.1"
 url = "2.1.1"
-async-trait = "0.1.26"
+async-trait = "0.1.30"
 
 # Ruma dependencies
-js_int = "0.1.3"
-ruma-api = "0.15.0-dev.1"
-ruma-client-api = { git = "https://github.com/matrix-org/ruma-client-api/", version = "0.7.0" }
-ruma-events = { git = "https://github.com/matrix-org/ruma-events", version = "0.18.0" }
+js_int = "0.1.4"
+ruma-api = "0.15.0"
+ruma-client-api = { path = "/home/poljar/werk/misc/ruma-client-api", version = "0.7.0" }
+ruma-events = { path = "/home/poljar/werk/misc/ruma-events", version = "0.18.0" }
 ruma-identifiers = "0.14.1"
+uuid = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["v4"] }
 
 # Dependencies for the encryption support
 olm-rs = { git = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/poljar/olm-rs", optional = true, features = ["serde"]}
-serde = { version = "1.0.105", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = { version = "1.0.49", optional = true }
+serde = { version = "1.0.106", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = { version = "1.0.51", optional = true }
 cjson = { version = "0.1.0", optional = true }
 zeroize = { version = "1.1.0", optional = true }
 
 # Misc dependencies
-thiserror = "1.0.13"
+thiserror = "1.0.14"
 tracing = "0.1.13"
 atomic = "0.4.5"
-dashmap = "3.9.1"
+dashmap = "3.10.0"
 
 [dependencies.tracing-futures]
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -48,19 +49,19 @@ default-features = false
 features = ["std", "std-future"]
 
 [dependencies.tokio]
-version = "0.2.13"
+version = "0.2.16"
 default-features = false
 features = ["sync", "time"]
 
 [dependencies.sqlx]
-version = "0.3.2"
+version = "0.3.3"
 optional = true
 default-features = false
 features = ["runtime-tokio", "sqlite"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "0.2.13", features = ["rt-threaded", "macros"] }
-serde_json = { version = "1.0.49" }
-tracing-subscriber = "0.2.3"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.16", features = ["rt-threaded", "macros"] }
+serde_json = "1.0.51"
+tracing-subscriber = "0.2.4"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-mockito = "0.23.3"
+mockito = "0.25.1"
diff --git a/src/async_client.rs b/src/async_client.rs
index 308054cd..257f3d2b 100644
--- a/src/async_client.rs
+++ b/src/async_client.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
+use uuid::Uuid;
+
 use futures::future::Future;
 use tokio::sync::RwLock;
 use tokio::time::delay_for as sleep;
@@ -668,7 +670,7 @@ impl AsyncClient {
         let request = create_message_event::Request {
             room_id: room_id.clone(),
             event_type: EventType::RoomMessage,
-            txn_id: self.transaction_id().to_string(),
+            txn_id: Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
             data,
         };