diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f2e70d7ab..98ab26433 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ require (
 
 require (
 	github.com/Jille/raft-grpc-transport v1.4.0
-	github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.0
+	github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.1
 	github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.4.1
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.21.2
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.18.42
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 99bf5e7e9..78bbe0ad0 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.1/go.mod h1:R4bJ1UQfqADjvDa4P6HZHLh/3OxWWEq
 github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.2 h1:3Xi6Dw5lHF15JtdcmAHD3i1+T8plmv7BQ/nsViSLyss=
 github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.2/go.mod h1:7gtRlve5FxPPgIgX36uWBX58OdBsSS6lUvCFb+h7KvU=
 github.com/antihax/optional v1.0.0/go.mod h1:uupD/76wgC+ih3iEmQUL+0Ugr19nfwCT1kdvxnR2qWY=
-github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.0 h1:NFWj/idqXZxhFVueihMSI2R9NotNIsgvNfM/xmpekb4=
-github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.0/go.mod h1:HQmdGkvNMVBTE3SIPSQ8T/ZddC6iwNsfMR+dDJQxIsI=
+github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.1 h1:bnhrpbA4U1NU13JOWs5sWWYMtQwdjKT0+jkl8dSndyY=
+github.com/arangodb/go-driver v1.6.1/go.mod h1:ywucwwi34GBxxXFWw/ym+7/66//L4K9abxk/sFJro2k=
 github.com/arangodb/go-velocypack v0.0.0-20200318135517-5af53c29c67e h1:Xg+hGrY2LcQBbxd0ZFdbGSyRKTYMZCfBbw/pMJFOk1g=
 github.com/arangodb/go-velocypack v0.0.0-20200318135517-5af53c29c67e/go.mod h1:mq7Shfa/CaixoDxiyAAc5jZ6CVBAyPaNQCGS7mkj4Ho=
 github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20190430140413-ec5e00d3c878/go.mod h1:3AMJUQhVx52RsWOnlkpikZr01T/yAVN2gn0861vByNg=