diff --git a/dev-python/jiter/jiter-0.15.0.ebuild b/dev-python/jiter/jiter-0.15.0.ebuild
index 7b00768963..5c1fe69b34 100644
--- a/dev-python/jiter/jiter-0.15.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/jiter/jiter-0.15.0.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=( maturin crates/jiter-python )
 PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/pydantic/jiter
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
 
-RUST_MIN_VER="1.87.0"
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.88.0"
 CRATES="
 	ahash@0.8.12
 	aho-corasick@1.1.4