diff --git a/common/Cargo.toml b/common/Cargo.toml
index 96c89462f0..5e4dcbc571 100644
--- a/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ lz4-compress = "0.1.1"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["serde", "nightly"] }
 find_folder = "0.3.0"
 parking_lot = "0.9.0"
-crossbeam = "0.7.2"
+crossbeam = "=0.7.2"
 notify = "5.0.0-pre.1"
 indexmap = "1.3.0"
 # TODO: remove when upgrading to specs 0.15
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 10b86958a1..c379db4c90 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ serde_derive = "1.0.102"
 rand = "0.7.2"
 chrono = "0.4.9"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["serde", "nightly"] }
-crossbeam = "0.7.2"
+crossbeam = "=0.7.2"
 prometheus = "0.7"
 prometheus-static-metric = "0.2"
 rouille = "3.0.0"
diff --git a/voxygen/Cargo.toml b/voxygen/Cargo.toml
index 5dcf9df9a1..77978fec3a 100644
--- a/voxygen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/voxygen/Cargo.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ frustum_query = "0.1.2"
 # context for pinning to commit: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/issues/280
 rodio = { git = "https://github.com/RustAudio/rodio", rev = "e5474a2"}
 cpal = "0.10"
-crossbeam = "0.7.2"
+crossbeam = "=0.7.2"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["serde", "nightly"] }
 chrono = "0.4.9"
 rust-argon2 = "0.5"