diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e7f111112..c781b851b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2223,6 +2223,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lz4_flex"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8b8c72594ac26bfd34f2d99dfced2edfaddfe8a476e3ff2ca0eb293d925c4f83"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "malloc_buf"
 version = "0.0.6"
@@ -2783,26 +2789,26 @@ checksum = "332cd62e95873ea4f41f3dfd6bbbfc5b52aec892d7e8d534197c4720a0bbbab2"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "puffin"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4f99b70359a44d98fceb167734e8cc19e232fe885a547f1b622e66d8099931b6"
+checksum = "76425abd4e1a0ad4bd6995dd974b52f414fca9974171df8e3708b3e660d05a21"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bincode",
  "byteorder",
+ "cfg-if",
  "instant",
+ "lz4_flex",
  "once_cell",
  "parking_lot",
- "ruzstd",
  "serde",
- "zstd",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "puffin_http"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cfbab9321f576e78566ac0986da3992ba8c3714056a12c6e92f4b5f71865cff7"
+checksum = "13bffc600c35913d282ae1e96a6ffcdf36dc7a7cdb9310e0ba15914d258c8193"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "crossbeam-channel",
@@ -3075,17 +3081,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "webpki",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ruzstd"
-version = "0.3.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9a15e661f0f9dac21f3494fe5d23a6338c0ac116a2d22c2b63010acd89467ffe"
-dependencies = [
- "byteorder",
- "thiserror",
- "twox-hash",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ryu"
 version = "1.0.13"
@@ -3683,16 +3678,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows 0.48.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "twox-hash"
-version = "1.6.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "97fee6b57c6a41524a810daee9286c02d7752c4253064d0b05472833a438f675"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "static_assertions",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "type-map"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -4561,36 +4546,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zvariant",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "zstd"
-version = "0.12.3+zstd.1.5.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "76eea132fb024e0e13fd9c2f5d5d595d8a967aa72382ac2f9d39fcc95afd0806"
-dependencies = [
- "zstd-safe",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "zstd-safe"
-version = "6.0.5+zstd.1.5.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d56d9e60b4b1758206c238a10165fbcae3ca37b01744e394c463463f6529d23b"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "zstd-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "zstd-sys"
-version = "2.0.8+zstd.1.5.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5556e6ee25d32df2586c098bbfa278803692a20d0ab9565e049480d52707ec8c"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "pkg-config",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "zvariant"
 version = "3.14.0"
diff --git a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
index 9f5a49257..87ad0a2d7 100644
--- a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ pollster = { version = "0.3", optional = true } # needed for wgpu
 # this can be done at the same time we expose x11/wayland features of winit crate.
 glutin = { version = "0.30", optional = true }
 glutin-winit = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
-puffin = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
+puffin = { version = "0.16", optional = true }
 wgpu = { version = "0.16.0", optional = true }
 
 # mac:
diff --git a/crates/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
index 058789003..7fc095b2d 100644
--- a/crates/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui-wgpu/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ winit = { version = "0.28", optional = true }
 
 # Native:
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
-puffin = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
+puffin = { version = "0.16", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
index 4df7d47b1..bf3f128f3 100644
--- a/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ accesskit_winit = { version = "0.14.0", optional = true }
 ## Enable this when generating docs.
 document-features = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 
-puffin = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
+puffin = { version = "0.16", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
 
 webbrowser = { version = "0.8.3", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/egui_glow/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
index a8add2d95..1c1a797cb 100644
--- a/crates/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui_glow/Cargo.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ document-features = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 # Native:
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 egui-winit = { version = "0.22.0", path = "../egui-winit", optional = true, default-features = false }
-puffin = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
+puffin = { version = "0.16", optional = true }
 
 # Web:
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
diff --git a/examples/puffin_profiler/Cargo.toml b/examples/puffin_profiler/Cargo.toml
index 7b372a24f..dbb048fea 100644
--- a/examples/puffin_profiler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/puffin_profiler/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ eframe = { path = "../../crates/eframe", features = [
     "__screenshot", # __screenshot is so we can dump a screenshot using EFRAME_SCREENSHOT_TO
 ] }
 env_logger = "0.10"
-puffin = "0.15"
-puffin_http = "0.12"
+puffin = "0.16"
+puffin_http = "0.13"