diff --git a/src/uu/basenc/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/basenc/Cargo.toml
index 7e177ef6d..c0f2b99cc 100644
--- a/src/uu/basenc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/basenc/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 path = "src/basenc.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", features = ["encoding"] }
 uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.7", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
 uu_base32 = { version=">=0.0.8", package="uu_base32", path="../base32"}
diff --git a/src/uu/basenc/src/basenc.rs b/src/uu/basenc/src/basenc.rs
index e4b24c351..9f67bf488 100644
--- a/src/uu/basenc/src/basenc.rs
+++ b/src/uu/basenc/src/basenc.rs
@@ -45,17 +45,17 @@ fn usage() -> String {
     format!("{0} [OPTION]... [FILE]", uucore::execution_phrase())
 }
 
-pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
+pub fn uu_app<'a>() -> App<'a> {
     let mut app = base_common::base_app(ABOUT);
     for encoding in ENCODINGS {
-        app = app.arg(Arg::with_name(encoding.0).long(encoding.0));
+        app = app.arg(Arg::new(encoding.0).long(encoding.0));
     }
     app
 }
 
 fn parse_cmd_args(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<(Config, Format)> {
     let usage = usage();
-    let matches = uu_app().usage(&usage[..]).get_matches_from(
+    let matches = uu_app().override_usage(&usage[..]).get_matches_from(
         args.collect_str(InvalidEncodingHandling::ConvertLossy)
             .accept_any(),
     );