diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 413174c856f..287749c4d18 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "termcolor",
  "toml 0.5.11",
  "tracing",
- "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-log 0.1.4",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "wait-timeout",
 ]
@@ -2156,6 +2156,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "25db6b064527c5d482d0423354fcd07a89a2dfe07b67892e62411946db7f07b0"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.9"
@@ -3158,9 +3167,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "prost"
-version = "0.12.1"
+version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f4fdd22f3b9c31b53c060df4a0613a1c7f062d4115a2b984dd15b1858f7e340d"
+checksum = "146c289cda302b98a28d40c8b3b90498d6e526dd24ac2ecea73e4e491685b94a"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "prost-derive",
@@ -3190,9 +3199,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "prost-derive"
-version = "0.12.1"
+version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "265baba7fabd416cf5078179f7d2cbeca4ce7a9041111900675ea7c4cb8a4c32"
+checksum = "efb6c9a1dd1def8e2124d17e83a20af56f1570d6c2d2bd9e266ccb768df3840e"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "itertools 0.11.0",
@@ -4672,11 +4681,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-appender"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09d48f71a791638519505cefafe162606f706c25592e4bde4d97600c0195312e"
+checksum = "3566e8ce28cc0a3fe42519fc80e6b4c943cc4c8cef275620eb8dac2d3d4e06cf"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
+ "thiserror",
  "time",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
@@ -4755,11 +4765,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ee855f1f400bd0e5c02d150ae5de3840039a3f54b025156404e34c23c03f47c3"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
-version = "0.3.17"
+version = "0.3.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "30a651bc37f915e81f087d86e62a18eec5f79550c7faff886f7090b4ea757c77"
+checksum = "ad0f048c97dbd9faa9b7df56362b8ebcaa52adb06b498c050d2f4e32f90a7a8b"
 dependencies = [
  "matchers",
  "nu-ansi-term",
@@ -4770,7 +4791,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thread_local",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-core",
- "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-log 0.2.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5604,7 +5625,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "humantime",
  "incrementalmerkletree",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.12.0",
  "jubjub",
  "lazy_static",
  "num-integer",
@@ -5701,7 +5722,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "howudoin",
  "humantime-serde",
  "indexmap 2.1.0",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.12.0",
  "lazy_static",
  "metrics",
  "num-integer",
@@ -5823,7 +5844,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "humantime-serde",
  "indexmap 2.1.0",
  "insta",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.12.0",
  "jubjub",
  "lazy_static",
  "metrics",
@@ -5860,7 +5881,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "humantime",
  "indexmap 2.1.0",
  "insta",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.12.0",
  "lazy_static",
  "once_cell",
  "owo-colors",
@@ -5884,7 +5905,7 @@ version = "1.0.0-beta.31"
 dependencies = [
  "color-eyre",
  "hex",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.12.0",
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 47466dc8c3d..44a6abcb756 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ skip-tree = [
     { name = "clap", version = "=2.34.0" },
     { name = "heck", version = "=0.3.3" },
 
+    # wait for abscissa_core to upgrade
+    {name = "tracing-log", version = "=0.1.4" },
+
+    # wait for prost to upgrade
+    {name = "itertools", version = "=0.11.0" },
+
     # Test-only dependencies
 
     # wait for tokio-test -> tokio-stream to upgrade
diff --git a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
index 4a0735c3a5f..9c24524e26e 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ serde-big-array = "0.5.1"
 
 # Processing
 futures = "0.3.29"
-itertools = "0.11.0"
+itertools = "0.12.0"
 rayon = "1.7.0"
 
 # ZF deps
diff --git a/zebra-consensus/Cargo.toml b/zebra-consensus/Cargo.toml
index d998f8145a9..37bb6dc2529 100644
--- a/zebra-consensus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-consensus/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ spandoc = "0.2.2"
 
 tokio = { version = "1.34.0", features = ["full", "tracing", "test-util"] }
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.17"
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
 
 zebra-state = { path = "../zebra-state", features = ["proptest-impl"] }
 zebra-chain = { path = "../zebra-chain", features = ["proptest-impl"] }
diff --git a/zebra-network/Cargo.toml b/zebra-network/Cargo.toml
index 3d8ef372ab6..149322e7801 100644
--- a/zebra-network/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-network/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ dirs = "5.0.1"
 hex = "0.4.3"
 humantime-serde = "1.1.1"
 indexmap = { version = "2.0.1", features = ["serde"] }
-itertools = "0.11.0"
+itertools = "0.12.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 num-integer = "0.1.45"
 ordered-map = "0.4.2"
diff --git a/zebra-state/Cargo.toml b/zebra-state/Cargo.toml
index 697d117078f..aa3601ec1cd 100644
--- a/zebra-state/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-state/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ hex = "0.4.3"
 hex-literal = "0.4.1"
 humantime-serde = "1.1.1"
 indexmap = "2.0.1"
-itertools = "0.11.0"
+itertools = "0.12.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 metrics = "0.21.1"
 mset = "0.1.1"
diff --git a/zebra-test/Cargo.toml b/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
index 128d872d30b..6fd05c515f8 100644
--- a/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ hex = "0.4.3"
 indexmap = "2.0.1"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 insta = "1.33.0"
-itertools = "0.11.0"
+itertools = "0.12.0"
 proptest = "1.4.0"
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 rand = "0.8.5"
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ owo-colors = "3.5.0"
 spandoc = "0.2.2"
 thiserror = "1.0.48"
 
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.17", features = ["env-filter"] }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.18", features = ["env-filter"] }
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
 tracing = "0.1.39"
 
diff --git a/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml b/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
index a5d9ab1a6ec..19f5f01cd6f 100644
--- a/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ structopt = "0.3.26"
 hex = "0.4.3"
 serde_json = "1.0.108"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.17"
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
 thiserror = "1.0.48"
 
 zebra-node-services = { path = "../zebra-node-services", version = "1.0.0-beta.31" }
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ zebra-chain = { path = "../zebra-chain", version = "1.0.0-beta.31" }
 zebra-rpc = { path = "../zebra-rpc", version = "1.0.0-beta.31", optional = true }
 
 # These crates are needed for the zebra-checkpoints binary
-itertools = { version = "0.11.0", optional = true }
+itertools = { version = "0.12.0", optional = true }
 
 # These crates are needed for the search-issue-refs binary
 regex = { version = "1.10.2", optional = true }
diff --git a/zebrad/Cargo.toml b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
index df89a0f8604..fdfbbd7def9 100644
--- a/zebrad/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ tinyvec = { version = "1.6.0", features = ["rustc_1_55"] }
 
 thiserror = "1.0.48"
 
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.17", features = ["env-filter"] }
-tracing-appender = "0.2.2"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.18", features = ["env-filter"] }
+tracing-appender = "0.2.3"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
 tracing-futures = "0.2.5"
 tracing = "0.1.39"
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.34.0", features = ["full", "tracing", "test-util"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1.14"
 
 # test feature lightwalletd-grpc-tests
-prost = "0.12.1"
+prost = "0.12.2"
 tonic = "0.10.2"
 
 proptest = "1.4.0"