diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1fb493ad7..fb4759638 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1201,9 +1201,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "notify"
-version = "5.0.0-pre.15"
+version = "5.0.0-pre.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "553f9844ad0b0824605c20fb55a661679782680410abfb1a8144c2e7e437e7a7"
+checksum = "530f6314d6904508082f4ea424a0275cf62d341e118b313663f266429cb19693"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "crossbeam-channel",
diff --git a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
index 05791cda3..269bb490d 100644
--- a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ path = "src/tail.rs"
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "3.2", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 libc = "0.2.126"
-notify = { version = "=5.0.0-pre.15", features=["macos_kqueue"]}
+notify = { version = "=5.0.0-pre.16", features=["macos_kqueue"]}
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.11", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["ringbuffer", "lines"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]