diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index f60d4191f..daf032087 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
         # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
         # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
         shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.20.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.21.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       - name: Cache cargo-dist
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 92ab652db..0efd2cb27 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/penberg/limbo"
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.20.0"
+cargo-dist-version = "0.21.0"
 # CI backends to support
 ci = "github"
 # Which kinds of built libraries to include in the final archives
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ install-libraries = "cstaticlib"
 installers = ["shell", "powershell"]
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
 targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
-# Publish jobs to run in CI
+# Which actions to run on pull requests
 pr-run-mode = "plan"
 # Path that installers should place binaries in
 install-path = "~/.limbo"