diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ed4cae93ca..c5da6081ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@ rand_xoshiro = "0.6.0"
 hex = "0.4.3"
 tempfile = "3.10.1"
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["async_tokio"] }
-libsqlite3-sys = { version = "0.30.1" }
+libsqlite3-sys = { version = "0.34.0" }
 
 # If this is an unconditional dev-dependency then Cargo will *always* try to build `libsqlite3-sys`,
 # even when SQLite isn't the intended test target, and fail if the build environment is not set up for compiling C code.
 [target.'cfg(sqlite_test_sqlcipher)'.dev-dependencies]
 # Enable testing with SQLCipher if specifically requested.
-libsqlite3-sys = { version = "0.30.1", features = ["bundled-sqlcipher"] }
+libsqlite3-sys = { version = "0.34.0", features = ["bundled-sqlcipher"] }
 
 # Common lint settings for the workspace
 [workspace.lints.clippy]
diff --git a/sqlx-sqlite/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-sqlite/Cargo.toml
index a84dccc6dc..d08ee9ed5d 100644
--- a/sqlx-sqlite/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-sqlite/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.145", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 regex = { version = "1.5.5", optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.libsqlite3-sys]
-version = "0.30.1"
+version = "0.34.0"
 default-features = false
 features = [
     "pkg-config",
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ workspace = true
 [dev-dependencies]
 sqlx = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["macros", "runtime-tokio", "tls-none", "sqlite"] }
 
+[build-dependencies]
+# FIXME: https://github.com/rusqlite/rusqlite/issues/1716
+# force `prettyplease` to a minimum version that supports C-string literals
+prettyplease = "0.2.18"
+
 [lints]
 workspace = true