diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 05904fe589..dc0642af75 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1208,9 +1208,9 @@ checksum = "6c8640c5d730cb13ebd907d8d04b52f55ac9a2eec55b440c8892f40d56c76c1d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "minijinja"
-version = "1.0.21"
+version = "2.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "55e877d961d4f96ce13615862322df7c0b6d169d40cab71a7ef3f9b9e594451e"
+checksum = "7165d0e94806d52ad5295e4b54a95176d831814840bc067298ca647e1c956338"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/rye/Cargo.toml b/rye/Cargo.toml
index 72431ba886..204f3006d1 100644
--- a/rye/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rye/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ git-testament = "0.2.4"
 globset = "0.4.10"
 indicatif = "0.17.3"
 license = { version = "3.1.1", features = ["offline"] }
-minijinja = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["json"] }
+minijinja = { version = "2.0.1", features = ["json"] }
 once_cell = "1.17.1"
 pathdiff = "0.2.1"
 pep440_rs = "0.4.0"
diff --git a/rye/src/cli/init.rs b/rye/src/cli/init.rs
index 907f9292b1..e88608357a 100644
--- a/rye/src/cli/init.rs
+++ b/rye/src/cli/init.rs
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ pub fn execute(cmd: Args) -> Result<(), Error> {
     }
     if metadata.author.is_none() {
         is_metadata_author_none = true;
-        metadata.author = author.clone();
+        metadata.author.clone_from(&author);
     }
     if metadata.requires_python.is_none() {
         metadata.requires_python = Some(requires_python);