diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 119653e6..b87ab0af 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -1315,17 +1315,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "comrak"
-version = "0.39.0"
+version = "0.45.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d5c834ca54c5a20588b358f34d1533b4b498ddb5fd979cec6b22d0e8867a2449"
+checksum = "3f297347343278e6e3581015487de80ec975d8e7c8bd4905b604cef1ae5ecf89"
 dependencies = [
  "bon",
  "caseless",
  "clap",
+ "emojis",
  "entities",
- "memchr",
+ "fmt2io",
+ "jetscii",
  "shell-words",
- "slug",
  "syntect",
  "typed-arena",
  "unicode_categories",
@@ -1880,12 +1881,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.101",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "deunicode"
-version = "1.6.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "abd57806937c9cc163efc8ea3910e00a62e2aeb0b8119f1793a978088f8f6b04"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "diff"
 version = "0.1.13"
@@ -2193,6 +2188,15 @@ version = "1.2.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4ef6b89e5b37196644d8796de5268852ff179b44e96276cf4290264843743bb7"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "emojis"
+version = "0.6.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "99e1f1df1f181f2539bac8bf027d31ca5ffbf9e559e3f2d09413b9107b5c02f4"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf 0.11.3",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "encode_unicode"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -2456,6 +2460,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "spin",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fmt2io"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6b6129284da9f7e5296cc22183a63f24300e945e297705dcc0672f7df01d62c8"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fnv"
 version = "1.0.7"
@@ -3793,6 +3803,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "system-deps",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jetscii"
+version = "0.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "47f142fe24a9c9944451e8349de0a56af5f3e7226dc46f3ed4d4ecc0b85af75e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "jni"
 version = "0.21.1"
@@ -7220,16 +7236,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "slug"
-version = "0.1.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "882a80f72ee45de3cc9a5afeb2da0331d58df69e4e7d8eeb5d3c7784ae67e724"
-dependencies = [
- "deunicode",
- "wasm-bindgen",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "smallvec"
 version = "1.15.0"
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index dc12b31c..7fa25364 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ time = "0.3.36"
 uuid = "1.7.0"
 syntect = "5.2.0"
 tokio = "1.39.3"
-comrak = "0.39.0"
+comrak = "0.45.0"
 portable-pty = "0.8.1"
 vt100 = "0.15.2"
 bytes = "1.7.1"