diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index deab62f..9a563c1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -876,11 +876,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "v_escape-base"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f1212fce830b75af194b578e55b3db9049f2c8c45f58d397fb25602fdb50fb3d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "v_jsonescape"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "be8219cc464ba10c48c3231a6871f11d26d831c5c45a47467eea387ea7bb10e8"
+checksum = "84cd6e591631bf251dc46aed57a3655c8e152017d58b019053cb65ba7a2336f2"
+dependencies = [
+ "v_escape-base",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 35f2d92..6a1a600 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ glob = "0.3"
 rand = "0.10"
 serde = "1"
 serde_json = "1"
-v_jsonescape = "0.7"
+v_jsonescape = "0.9"
 json-escape = "0.3.0"
 sonic-rs = "0.5"
 
diff --git a/benches/escape.rs b/benches/escape.rs
index 79bc213..aa1b2dc 100644
--- a/benches/escape.rs
+++ b/benches/escape.rs
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ fn run_benchmarks(c: &mut Criterion, sources: &[String], prefix: &str) {
     c.bench_function(&format!("{} escape v_jsonescape", prefix), |b| {
         b.iter(|| {
             for source in sources {
-                black_box(v_jsonescape::escape(source).to_string());
+                black_box(v_jsonescape::escape_fmt(source).to_string());
             }
         })
     });