diff --git a/src/uu/join/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/join/Cargo.toml
index 7ce287c61..37596c835 100644
--- a/src/uu/join/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/join/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 path = "src/join.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-clap = { version = "2.33", features = ["wrap_help"] }
+clap = { version = "3.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.10", package="uucore", path="../../uucore" }
 uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.7", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
 
diff --git a/src/uu/join/src/join.rs b/src/uu/join/src/join.rs
index e396d4294..eacc11f03 100644
--- a/src/uu/join/src/join.rs
+++ b/src/uu/join/src/join.rs
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
     exec(file1, file2, settings)
 }
 
-pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
+pub fn uu_app<'a>() -> App<'a> {
     App::new(NAME)
         .version(crate_version!())
         .about(
@@ -541,12 +541,10 @@ standard output. The default join field is the first, delimited by blanks.
 
 When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input.",
         )
-        .help_message("display this help and exit")
-        .version_message("display version and exit")
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("a")
-                .short("a")
-                .multiple(true)
+            Arg::new("a")
+                .short('a')
+                .multiple_occurrences(true)
                 .number_of_values(1)
                 .possible_values(&["1", "2"])
                 .value_name("FILENUM")
@@ -556,86 +554,86 @@ FILENUM is 1 or 2, corresponding to FILE1 or FILE2",
                 ),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("v")
-                .short("v")
-                .multiple(true)
+            Arg::new("v")
+                .short('v')
+                .multiple_occurrences(true)
                 .number_of_values(1)
                 .possible_values(&["1", "2"])
                 .value_name("FILENUM")
                 .help("like -a FILENUM, but suppress joined output lines"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("e")
-                .short("e")
+            Arg::new("e")
+                .short('e')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("EMPTY")
                 .help("replace missing input fields with EMPTY"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("i")
-                .short("i")
+            Arg::new("i")
+                .short('i')
                 .long("ignore-case")
                 .help("ignore differences in case when comparing fields"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("j")
-                .short("j")
+            Arg::new("j")
+                .short('j')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("FIELD")
                 .help("equivalent to '-1 FIELD -2 FIELD'"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("o")
-                .short("o")
+            Arg::new("o")
+                .short('o')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("FORMAT")
                 .help("obey FORMAT while constructing output line"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("t")
-                .short("t")
+            Arg::new("t")
+                .short('t')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("CHAR")
                 .help("use CHAR as input and output field separator"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("1")
-                .short("1")
+            Arg::new("1")
+                .short('1')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("FIELD")
                 .help("join on this FIELD of file 1"),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("2")
-                .short("2")
+            Arg::new("2")
+                .short('2')
                 .takes_value(true)
                 .value_name("FIELD")
                 .help("join on this FIELD of file 2"),
         )
-        .arg(Arg::with_name("check-order").long("check-order").help(
+        .arg(Arg::new("check-order").long("check-order").help(
             "check that the input is correctly sorted, \
              even if all input lines are pairable",
         ))
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("nocheck-order")
+            Arg::new("nocheck-order")
                 .long("nocheck-order")
                 .help("do not check that the input is correctly sorted"),
         )
-        .arg(Arg::with_name("header").long("header").help(
+        .arg(Arg::new("header").long("header").help(
             "treat the first line in each file as field headers, \
              print them without trying to pair them",
         ))
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("file1")
+            Arg::new("file1")
                 .required(true)
                 .value_name("FILE1")
-                .hidden(true),
+                .hide(true),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name("file2")
+            Arg::new("file2")
                 .required(true)
                 .value_name("FILE2")
-                .hidden(true),
+                .hide(true),
         )
 }