diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9bc1b3b..77378b7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "cffb0e931875b666fc4fcb20fee52e9bbd1ef836fd9e9e04ec21555f9f85f7ef"
 dependencies = [
  "fastrand",
+ "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -269,10 +270,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "falkordb"
-version = "0.8.6"
+version = "0.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9ac188475634c3f22556c112d584e92d2807b47ac6f394b56fb5e1cf2da53564"
+checksum = "64185bbcbeb7e5a437a4a2d0720b6af04e8c42ece104b4e1ac8c4576c9686025"
 dependencies = [
+ "backon",
  "futures-core",
  "parking_lot",
  "redis",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4159c8f..3518b41 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ keywords = ["falkordb", "mcp", "graph-database", "ai", "cypher"]
 categories = ["database", "command-line-utilities"]
 
 [dependencies]
-falkordb = { version = "0.8.6", features = ["tokio"] }
+falkordb = { version = "0.10.1", features = ["tokio"] }
 # rmcp moves fast; pin to an exact version and bump deliberately (see copilot-instructions.md).
 rmcp = { version = "=1.7.0", features = ["server", "macros", "schemars", "transport-io"] }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread", "io-std", "signal"] }