diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 888ac5092ea..632f0864c96 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ towards supporting shielded scanning in Zebra. There are still known security is
 feature, it is not recommended to use important private keys when testing Zebra's experimental
 shielded scanning support. Ongoing development is tracked in issue [#7728](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/7728).
 
+As of this release, Zebra requires Rust 1.73 to build.
+
 ### Security
 
 - security(net): Stop sending peer addresses from version messages directly to the address book ([#7977](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/7977))
diff --git a/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml b/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
index ac3168e4a92..45578ad98ec 100644
--- a/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ categories = ["command-line-utilities", "cryptography::cryptocurrencies"]
 
 # Zebra is only supported on the latest stable Rust version. See the README for details.
 # Any Zebra release can break compatibility with older Rust versions.
-rust-version = "1.70"
+rust-version = "1.73"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "zebra-checkpoints"
diff --git a/zebrad/Cargo.toml b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
index 188da85efcc..d72afdea586 100644
--- a/zebrad/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 # Zebra is only supported on the latest stable Rust version. See the README for details.
 # Any Zebra release can break compatibility with older Rust versions.
-rust-version = "1.70"
+rust-version = "1.73"
 
 # Settings that impact runtime behaviour