diff --git a/.clippy.toml b/.clippy.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index e034672c7..000000000
--- a/.clippy.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-msrv = "1.65.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8a8785572..6f8209eaf 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[workspace.package]
+rust-version = "1.65.0"
+
 [workspace]
 members = [
     # main crates, published on crates.io
diff --git a/capnp/Cargo.toml b/capnp/Cargo.toml
index bbb092dc6..bf07d772d 100644
--- a/capnp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/capnp/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description = "runtime library for Cap'n Proto data encoding"
 repository = "https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto-rust"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/capnp/"
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.65.0"
+rust-version.workspace = true
 
 readme = "README.md"