diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1c785b3..ffeff63 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "editdistancek",
  "enum-map",
  "fxhash",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.12.1",
  "itertools-num",
  "lazy_static",
  "multimap",
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "criterion-plot",
  "is-terminal",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
  "num-traits",
  "once_cell",
  "oorandom",
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6b50826342786a51a89e2da3a28f1c32b06e387201bc2d19791f622c673706b1"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fastq",
  "file_diff",
  "flate2",
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.12.1",
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "lz4",
@@ -590,6 +590,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.12.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ba291022dbbd398a455acf126c1e341954079855bc60dfdda641363bd6922569"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itertools-num"
 version = "0.1.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9e95a22..6992c5b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ regex = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std", "perf"] }
 lazy_static = "1"
 rand = ">=0.7, <2"
 rand_xorshift = ">=0.2"
-itertools = ">=0.8"
+itertools = ">=0.10,<0.13"
 lz4 = "*"
 fastq = "^0.6"
 bio = ">=0.33.0, <3"