diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e0b7778588c..1e41a9ffd6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -753,12 +753,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.117",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bit-vec"
-version = "0.8.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5e764a1d40d510daf35e07be9eb06e75770908c27d411ee6c92109c9840eaaf7"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-vec"
 version = "0.9.1"
@@ -5972,21 +5966,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "noodles-bgzf"
-version = "0.44.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7ab0c2585bad37cfc51a55f29c85449400ac51aaade935049d5d9fc5f8add255"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "crossbeam-channel",
- "flate2",
- "futures",
- "pin-project-lite",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "noodles-bgzf"
 version = "0.46.0"
@@ -6004,35 +5983,38 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "noodles-core"
-version = "0.18.0"
+version = "0.19.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ebfc6396fb51059c98a35bb81b96422ac41ea1bc60b6c8e9c6b2550212e9493"
+checksum = "53e1e8a419dbba0e4000b0e60830b124138c7f2277ad556463506f1a81d32d17"
 dependencies = [
  "bstr",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "noodles-csi"
-version = "0.52.0"
+version = "0.55.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d09e31153abd7996f22a50d70f43af6c2ebf96a44ee250326ed15d4e183744c9"
+checksum = "c9c846d8128bd80b18d891b13cb9e0bc1d364429d6ab3ec3c83939f3d32ba105"
 dependencies = [
- "bit-vec 0.8.0",
+ "bit-vec",
  "bstr",
+ "futures",
  "indexmap",
- "noodles-bgzf 0.44.0",
+ "noodles-bgzf",
  "noodles-core",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "noodles-tabix"
-version = "0.58.0"
+version = "0.61.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3dd8ed06bbf341ce64649717ce0fa1723bf60547eb7d61bd271b79130016dfa4"
+checksum = "2443d0852c9618cd4aa8d11bc7c1884285e46aa4466cf5c1e49f3d9756ca7ced"
 dependencies = [
  "bstr",
  "indexmap",
- "noodles-bgzf 0.44.0",
+ "noodles-bgzf",
  "noodles-core",
  "noodles-csi",
  "tokio",
@@ -6040,14 +6022,14 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "noodles-vcf"
-version = "0.82.0"
+version = "0.86.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8d46b26eb1873883e5e6b738c75d4e44c9e1edcc1c6454fc5c25b56202e510bc"
+checksum = "0131147080a5aeadcd6c2ab43e7ca1f9e8018cdd482eed797d081c40e8f0a3c7"
 dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "indexmap",
  "memchr",
- "noodles-bgzf 0.44.0",
+ "noodles-bgzf",
  "noodles-core",
  "noodles-csi",
  "noodles-tabix",
@@ -9826,7 +9808,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "indicatif",
  "itertools 0.14.0",
  "mimalloc",
- "noodles-bgzf 0.46.0",
+ "noodles-bgzf",
  "noodles-vcf",
  "parking_lot",
  "parquet",
@@ -10457,7 +10439,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
  "async-trait",
- "bit-vec 0.9.1",
+ "bit-vec",
  "futures",
  "itertools 0.14.0",
  "parking_lot",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d8d232741c1..0108b152e49 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ mimalloc = "0.1.42"
 moka = { version = "0.12.10", default-features = false }
 multiversion = "0.8.0"
 noodles-bgzf = "0.46.0"
-noodles-vcf = "0.82.0"
+noodles-vcf = { version = "0.86.0", features = ["async"] }
 num-traits = "0.2.19"
 num_enum = { version = "0.7.3", default-features = false }
 object_store = { version = "0.12.4", default-features = false }
diff --git a/vortex-bench/src/statpopgen/download_vcf.rs b/vortex-bench/src/statpopgen/download_vcf.rs
index 7d5552541c5..503bf0b0e5f 100644
--- a/vortex-bench/src/statpopgen/download_vcf.rs
+++ b/vortex-bench/src/statpopgen/download_vcf.rs
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ impl StatPopGenBenchmark {
                 let mut bgzf_reader = noodles_bgzf::r#async::io::Reader::new(buf_reader);
 
                 // Read and parse VCF header
-                let mut vcf_reader = noodles_vcf::AsyncReader::new(&mut bgzf_reader);
+                let mut vcf_reader = noodles_vcf::r#async::io::Reader::new(&mut bgzf_reader);
 
                 // Read and print the first 100,000 records
                 let header = vcf_reader.read_header().await?;