diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3d9a28c4..e7805e12 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ hyper-util = { version = "0.1.3", features = ["http1"] }
 once_cell = "1.7.2"
 percent-encoding = "2.2.0"
 pin-project = "1.0.12"
-secrecy = "0.8.0"
+secrecy = "0.10.3"
 serde = { version = "1.0.126", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.64"
 serde_path_to_error = "0.1.4"
diff --git a/examples/device_flow.rs b/examples/device_flow.rs
index 1903fe38..44b807c4 100644
--- a/examples/device_flow.rs
+++ b/examples/device_flow.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use http::header::ACCEPT;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> octocrab::Result<()> {
-    let client_id = secrecy::Secret::from(std::env::var("GITHUB_CLIENT_ID").unwrap());
+    let client_id = secrecy::SecretString::from(std::env::var("GITHUB_CLIENT_ID").unwrap());
     let crab = octocrab::Octocrab::builder()
         .base_uri("https://github.com")?
         .add_header(ACCEPT, "application/json".to_string())
diff --git a/examples/get_dependabot_alerts.rs b/examples/get_dependabot_alerts.rs
index 7b3102b7..226c78f6 100644
--- a/examples/get_dependabot_alerts.rs
+++ b/examples/get_dependabot_alerts.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const REPO: &str = "some-repo";
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() {
     // example for Dependabot alerts API with OAuth GitHub App
-    let client_id = secrecy::Secret::from(std::env::var("GITHUB_CLIENT_ID").unwrap());
+    let client_id = secrecy::SecretString::from(std::env::var("GITHUB_CLIENT_ID").unwrap());
     let crab = octocrab::Octocrab::builder()
         .base_uri("https://github.com")
         .unwrap()
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 4a5cf766..6f8220a5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ impl Octocrab {
 
         token.set(token_object.token.clone(), expiration);
 
-        Ok(SecretString::new(token_object.token))
+        Ok(SecretString::from(token_object.token))
     }
 
     /// Send the given request to the underlying service