diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 930d85e1..b4068291 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ version = "1.1.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "40c48f72fd53cd289104fc64099abca73db4166ad86ea0b4341abe65af83dadc"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.60.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ checksum = "291e6a250ff86cd4a820112fb8898808a366d8f9f58ce16d1f538353ad55747d"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "once_cell_polyfill",
- "windows-sys 0.60.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "option-ext",
  "redox_users 0.5.2",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "39cab71617ae0d63f51a36d69f866391735b51691dbda63cf6f96d042b63efeb"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2710,9 +2710,9 @@ checksum = "9afc2bd4d5a73106dd53d10d73d3401c2f32730ba2c0b93ddb888a8983680471"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fastembed"
-version = "5.13.4"
+version = "5.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a0112bd54a5d1903b19c85609c282949523bb8bb39f1614d4db0017e0ef3b0ff"
+checksum = "add59222e7bc3787285f993744b244cd454d78571845623606bdc45b22b23a4e"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "hf-hub",
@@ -4980,7 +4980,7 @@ version = "0.50.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7957b9740744892f114936ab4a57b3f487491bbeafaf8083688b16841a4240e5"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -7264,7 +7264,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -7332,7 +7332,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "security-framework",
  "security-framework-sys",
  "webpki-root-certs",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -7842,7 +7842,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3a766e1110788c36f4fa1c2b71b387a7815aa65f88ce0229841826633d93723e"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.60.2",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -8281,7 +8281,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.4.2",
  "once_cell",
  "rustix",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -8302,7 +8302,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "230a1b821ccbd75b185820a1f1ff7b14d21da1e442e22c0863ea5f08771a8874"
 dependencies = [
  "rustix",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -9960,7 +9960,7 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c2a7b1c03c876122aa43f3020e6c3c3ee5c05081c9a00739faf7503aeba10d22"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/crates/vectorizer/Cargo.toml b/crates/vectorizer/Cargo.toml
index 39d843a3..d350406e 100644
--- a/crates/vectorizer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/vectorizer/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ hnsw_rs = "0.3"
 # Intelligent search dependencies
 tantivy = "0.26"  # BM25 full-text search engine
 rrf = "0.1"       # Reciprocal Rank Fusion
-fastembed = { version = "5.13", optional = true } # Embeddings + cross-encoder reranking (requires ONNX Runtime)
+fastembed = { version = "5.16", optional = true } # Embeddings + cross-encoder reranking (requires ONNX Runtime)
 rust-tfidf = "1.1" # TF-IDF similarity fallback
 
 # Linear algebra for basic matrix operations