diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 063097ab14..f2ed0b0684 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ cc = "1"
 [dev-dependencies]
 bytes = "0.4.8"
 lazy_static = "1"
-rand = "0.4"
+rand = "0.5"
 tempfile = "3"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "freebsd")'.dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/test/sys/test_uio.rs b/test/sys/test_uio.rs
index 8d584985cb..3e4fc28ceb 100644
--- a/test/sys/test_uio.rs
+++ b/test/sys/test_uio.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use nix::sys::uio::*;
 use nix::unistd::*;
 use rand::{thread_rng, Rng};
+use rand::distributions::Alphanumeric;
 use std::{cmp, iter};
 use std::fs::{OpenOptions};
 use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ use tempfile::{tempfile, tempdir};
 fn test_writev() {
     let mut to_write = Vec::with_capacity(16 * 128);
     for _ in 0..16 {
-        let s: String = thread_rng().gen_ascii_chars().take(128).collect();
+        let s: String = thread_rng().sample_iter(&Alphanumeric).take(128).collect();
         let b = s.as_bytes();
         to_write.extend(b.iter().cloned());
     }
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ fn test_writev() {
 
 #[test]
 fn test_readv() {
-    let s:String = thread_rng().gen_ascii_chars().take(128).collect();
+    let s:String = thread_rng().sample_iter(&Alphanumeric).take(128).collect();
     let to_write = s.as_bytes().to_vec();
     let mut storage = Vec::new();
     let mut allocated = 0;