diff --git a/.clippy.toml b/.clippy.toml
index 6d497a6e..5867c685 100644
--- a/.clippy.toml
+++ b/.clippy.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-msrv = "1.50"
+msrv = "1.53"
 disallowed-types = [
     "std::collections::HashMap",
     "std::collections::HashSet",
diff --git a/.github/workflows/msrv.yml b/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
index c4441817..de087f07 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/msrv.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Rust 1.50
+name: Rust 1.53
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Install rust 1.50 toolchain
+      - name: Install rust 1.53 toolchain
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
           profile: minimal
-          toolchain: '1.50'
+          toolchain: '1.53'
       # Used to compile xtask
       - name: Install rust stable toolchain
         uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e9d24ab7..14f00a70 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 ## Minimum Rust version
 
-Ruma currently requires Rust 1.50. In general, we will never require beta or
+Ruma currently requires Rust 1.53. In general, we will never require beta or
 nightly for crates.io releases of our crates, and we will try to avoid releasing
 crates that depend on features that were only just stabilized.
 
diff --git a/crates/ruma-state-res/.clippy.toml b/crates/ruma-state-res/.clippy.toml
index 8fd20db8..852a9d42 100644
--- a/crates/ruma-state-res/.clippy.toml
+++ b/crates/ruma-state-res/.clippy.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-msrv = "1.50"
+msrv = "1.53"
 disallowed-types = []
 enforced-import-renames = [ { path = "serde_json::Value", rename = "JsonValue" } ]
 standard-macro-braces = [
diff --git a/xtask/src/ci.rs b/xtask/src/ci.rs
index e2ff92e6..b8d77baf 100644
--- a/xtask/src/ci.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/ci.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use xshell::pushd;
 
 use crate::{cmd, Metadata, Result};
 
-const MSRV: &str = "1.50";
+const MSRV: &str = "1.53";
 
 /// Task to run CI tests.
 pub struct CiTask {