diff --git a/contrib/codegen/src/database.rs b/contrib/codegen/src/database.rs
index c1a599b2..3843837e 100644
--- a/contrib/codegen/src/database.rs
+++ b/contrib/codegen/src/database.rs
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ pub fn database_attr(attr: TokenStream, input: TokenStream) -> Result<TokenStrea
     let databases = quote_spanned!(span => ::rocket_contrib::databases);
     let Poolable = quote_spanned!(span => #databases::Poolable);
     let r2d2 = quote_spanned!(span => #databases::r2d2);
-    let tokio_executor = quote_spanned!(span => #databases::tokio_executor);
+    let spawn_blocking = quote_spanned!(span => #databases::spawn_blocking);
     let request = quote!(::rocket::request);
 
     let generated_types = quote_spanned! { span =>
@@ -149,14 +149,16 @@ pub fn database_attr(attr: TokenStream, input: TokenStream) -> Result<TokenStrea
                 Box::pin(async move {
                     let pool = ::rocket::try_outcome!(request.guard::<::rocket::State<'_, #pool_type>>()).0.clone();
 
-                    #tokio_executor::blocking::run(move || {
+                    #spawn_blocking(move || {
                         match pool.get() {
                             Ok(conn) => Outcome::Success(#guard_type(conn)),
                             Err(_) => Outcome::Failure((Status::ServiceUnavailable, ())),
                         }
-                    }).await
+                    }).await.expect("failed to spawn a blocking task to get a pooled connection")
                 })
             }
         }
+
+        // TODO.async: What about spawn_blocking on drop?
     }.into())
 }
diff --git a/contrib/codegen/tests/ui-fail/database-types.rs b/contrib/codegen/tests/ui-fail/database-types.rs
index 34bd3e7a..1b676733 100644
--- a/contrib/codegen/tests/ui-fail/database-types.rs
+++ b/contrib/codegen/tests/ui-fail/database-types.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ struct Unknown;
 //~^^^ ERROR no method named `get`
 struct A(Unknown);
 //~^ ERROR Unknown: rocket_contrib::databases::Poolable
+//~^^ ERROR Unknown: rocket_contrib::databases::Poolable
 
 #[database("foo")]
 //~^ ERROR Vec<i32>: rocket_contrib::databases::Poolable
@@ -16,5 +17,6 @@ struct A(Unknown);
 //~^^^ ERROR no method named `get`
 struct B(Vec<i32>);
 //~^ ERROR Vec<i32>: rocket_contrib::databases::Poolable
+//~^^ ERROR Vec<i32>: rocket_contrib::databases::Poolable
 
 fn main() {  }
diff --git a/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml b/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
index 4c156623..5ee47a0c 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ edition = "2018"
 [features]
 # Internal use only.
 templates = ["serde", "serde_json", "glob", "notify"]
-databases = ["r2d2", "tokio-executor", "rocket_contrib_codegen/database_attribute"]
+databases = ["r2d2", "tokio/blocking", "tokio/rt-threaded", "rocket_contrib_codegen/database_attribute"]
 
 # User-facing features.
 default = ["json", "serve"]
-json = ["serde", "serde_json"]
-msgpack = ["serde", "rmp-serde"]
+json = ["serde", "serde_json", "tokio/io-util"]
+msgpack = ["serde", "rmp-serde", "tokio/io-util"]
 tera_templates = ["tera", "templates"]
 handlebars_templates = ["handlebars", "templates"]
 helmet = ["time"]
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ memcache_pool = ["databases", "memcache", "r2d2-memcache"]
 
 [dependencies]
 # Global dependencies.
-futures-util-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-tokio-io = "=0.2.0-alpha.6"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true }
 rocket_contrib_codegen = { version = "0.5.0-dev", path = "../codegen", optional = true }
 rocket = { version = "0.5.0-dev", path = "../../core/lib/", default-features = false }
 log = "0.4"
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ uuid = { version = ">=0.7.0, <0.9.0", optional = true }
 diesel = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 postgres = { version = "0.17", optional = true }
 r2d2 = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
-tokio-executor = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.6", optional = true }
 r2d2_postgres = { version = "0.16", optional = true }
 mysql = { version = "17.0", optional = true }
 r2d2_mysql = { version = "17.0", optional = true }
@@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ brotli = { version = "3.3", optional = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio-timer = "=0.3.0-alpha.6"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["time"] }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 all-features = true
diff --git a/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs b/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
index 2e0f9cdc..4f12b130 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
+++ b/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
 pub extern crate r2d2;
 
 #[doc(hidden)]
-pub extern crate tokio_executor;
+pub use tokio::task::spawn_blocking;
 
 #[cfg(any(feature = "diesel_sqlite_pool",
           feature = "diesel_postgres_pool",
diff --git a/contrib/lib/src/json.rs b/contrib/lib/src/json.rs
index 0962c449..55a50b5e 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/src/json.rs
+++ b/contrib/lib/src/json.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
 use std::io;
 use std::iter::FromIterator;
 
-use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
 use rocket::request::Request;
 use rocket::outcome::Outcome::*;
diff --git a/contrib/lib/src/msgpack.rs b/contrib/lib/src/msgpack.rs
index 3ed02629..855e1bc6 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/src/msgpack.rs
+++ b/contrib/lib/src/msgpack.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
 
-use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
 use rocket::request::Request;
 use rocket::outcome::Outcome::*;
diff --git a/contrib/lib/tests/templates.rs b/contrib/lib/tests/templates.rs
index 7250ab9c..2f9b029e 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/tests/templates.rs
+++ b/contrib/lib/tests/templates.rs
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ mod templates_tests {
                 }
 
                 // otherwise, retry a few times, waiting 250ms in between
-                tokio_timer::delay_for(Duration::from_millis(250)).await;
+                tokio::time::delay_for(Duration::from_millis(250)).await;
             }
 
             panic!("failed to reload modified template in 1.5s");
diff --git a/core/codegen/Cargo.toml b/core/codegen/Cargo.toml
index 07237e73..67953ae9 100644
--- a/core/codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,5 @@ version_check = "0.9.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 rocket = { version = "0.5.0-dev", path = "../lib" }
-futures-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-tokio-io = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["io-util"] }
 compiletest_rs = { version = "0.3", features = ["stable"] }
diff --git a/core/codegen/tests/route-data.rs b/core/codegen/tests/route-data.rs
index 3a4f38b0..f5c92b7e 100644
--- a/core/codegen/tests/route-data.rs
+++ b/core/codegen/tests/route-data.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ impl FromDataSimple for Simple {
 
     fn from_data(_: &Request<'_>, data: Data) -> data::FromDataFuture<'static, Self, ()> {
         Box::pin(async {
-            use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+            use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
             let mut string = String::new();
             let mut stream = data.open().take(64);
diff --git a/core/codegen/tests/route.rs b/core/codegen/tests/route.rs
index d72c1fdc..eeb56494 100644
--- a/core/codegen/tests/route.rs
+++ b/core/codegen/tests/route.rs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ impl FromDataSimple for Simple {
 
     fn from_data(_: &Request<'_>, data: Data) -> data::FromDataFuture<'static, Self, ()> {
         Box::pin(async move {
-            use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+            use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
             let mut string = String::new();
             let mut stream = data.open().take(64);
diff --git a/core/http/Cargo.toml b/core/http/Cargo.toml
index fb166fd9..cf544858 100644
--- a/core/http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/http/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,21 +22,17 @@ private-cookies = ["cookie/private", "cookie/key-expansion"]
 [dependencies]
 smallvec = "1.0"
 percent-encoding = "1"
-# TODO.async: stop using stream-unstable
-hyper = { version = "=0.13.0-alpha.4", default-features = false, features = ["unstable-stream"] }
-http = "0.1.17"
+hyper = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false }
+http = "0.2"
 mime = "0.3.13"
 time = "0.2.11"
 indexmap = "1.0"
 state = "0.4"
-tokio-rustls = { version = "0.12.0-alpha.4", optional = true }
-tokio-io = "=0.2.0-alpha.6"
-tokio-net = { version = "=0.2.0-alpha.6", features = ["tcp"] }
-tokio-timer = "=0.3.0-alpha.6"
+tokio-rustls = { version = "0.12.0", optional = true }
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["sync", "tcp", "time"] }
 cookie = { version = "0.14.0", features = ["percent-encode"] }
 pear = "0.1"
 unicode-xid = "0.2"
-futures-core-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
 log = "0.4"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/core/http/src/hyper.rs b/core/http/src/hyper.rs
index 36ba9b01..13725130 100644
--- a/core/http/src/hyper.rs
+++ b/core/http/src/hyper.rs
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 //! while necessary.
 
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::{Body, Request, Response, Server};
-#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::body::{Payload, Sender as BodySender};
+#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::body::{Bytes, HttpBody, Sender as BodySender};
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::error::Error;
-#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::service::{make_service_fn, service_fn, MakeService, Service};
+#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::rt::Executor;
+#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::service::{make_service_fn, service_fn, Service};
 
-#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::Chunk;
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use http::header::HeaderMap;
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use http::header::HeaderName as HeaderName;
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use http::header::HeaderValue as HeaderValue;
diff --git a/core/http/src/listener.rs b/core/http/src/listener.rs
index 755e1267..637ec2e2 100644
--- a/core/http/src/listener.rs
+++ b/core/http/src/listener.rs
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ use std::io;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
-use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+use std::time::Duration;
 
 use hyper::server::accept::Accept;
 
 use log::{debug, error};
 
-use tokio_io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite};
-use tokio_timer::Delay;
-use tokio_net::tcp::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite};
+use tokio::time::Delay;
+use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
 
 // TODO.async: 'Listener' and 'Connection' provide common enough functionality
 // that they could be introduced in upstream libraries.
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ impl<L: Listener> Incoming<L> {
                         error!("accept error: {}", e);
 
                         // Sleep for the specified duration
-                        let delay = Instant::now() + duration;
-                        let mut error_delay = tokio_timer::delay(delay);
+                        let mut error_delay = tokio::time::delay_for(duration);
 
                         match Pin::new(&mut error_delay).poll(cx) {
                             Poll::Ready(()) => {
@@ -127,8 +126,7 @@ impl<L: Listener + Unpin> Accept for Incoming<L> {
     type Error = io::Error;
 
     fn poll_accept(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<Result<Self::Conn, Self::Error>>> {
-        let result = futures_core::ready!(self.poll_next(cx));
-        Poll::Ready(Some(result))
+        self.poll_next(cx).map(Some)
     }
 }
 
@@ -170,10 +168,7 @@ impl Listener for TcpListener {
     }
 
     fn poll_accept(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Result<Self::Connection, io::Error>> {
-        // NB: This is only okay because TcpListener::accept() is stateless.
-        let mut accept = self.accept();
-        let accept = unsafe { Pin::new_unchecked(&mut accept) };
-        accept.poll(cx).map_ok(|(stream, _addr)| stream)
+        self.poll_accept(cx).map_ok(|(stream, _addr)| stream)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/core/http/src/tls.rs b/core/http/src/tls.rs
index cf8b61b9..1d04c9f9 100644
--- a/core/http/src/tls.rs
+++ b/core/http/src/tls.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 
-use tokio_net::tcp::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
 
 use tokio_rustls::{TlsAcceptor, server::TlsStream};
 use tokio_rustls::rustls;
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ impl Listener for TlsListener {
                 TlsListenerState::Listening => {
                     match self.listener.poll_accept(cx) {
                         Poll::Pending => return Poll::Pending,
-                        Poll::Ready(Ok(stream)) => {
+                        Poll::Ready(Ok((stream, _addr))) => {
                             self.state = TlsListenerState::Accepting(Box::pin(self.acceptor.accept(stream)));
                         }
                         Poll::Ready(Err(e)) => {
diff --git a/core/lib/Cargo.toml b/core/lib/Cargo.toml
index 9dd9b107..bb988ea0 100644
--- a/core/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,11 +27,8 @@ ctrl_c_shutdown = ["tokio/signal"]
 [dependencies]
 rocket_codegen = { version = "0.5.0-dev", path = "../codegen" }
 rocket_http = { version = "0.5.0-dev", path = "../http" }
-futures-core-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-futures-channel-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-futures-util-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-tokio = "=0.2.0-alpha.6"
-tokio-io = "=0.2.0-alpha.6"
+futures-util = "0.3.0"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["fs", "io-std", "io-util", "rt-threaded", "sync"] }
 yansi = "0.5"
 log = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
 toml = "0.4.7"
@@ -48,7 +45,6 @@ yansi = "0.5"
 version_check = "0.9.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-futures-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-futures-tokio-compat = { git = "https://github.com/Nemo157/futures-tokio-compat", rev = "8a93702" }
 # TODO: Find a way to not depend on this.
 lazy_static = "1.0"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["macros"] }
diff --git a/core/lib/src/catcher.rs b/core/lib/src/catcher.rs
index e37a6ce0..5c011dbd 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/catcher.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/catcher.rs
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ macro_rules! default_catchers {
         let mut map = HashMap::new();
 
         $(
-            fn $fn_name<'r>(req: &'r Request<'_>) -> futures_core::future::BoxFuture<'r, response::Result<'r>> {
+            fn $fn_name<'r>(req: &'r Request<'_>) -> futures_util::future::BoxFuture<'r, response::Result<'r>> {
                 status::Custom(Status::from_code($code).unwrap(),
                     content::Html(error_page_template!($code, $name, $description))
                 ).respond_to(req)
diff --git a/core/lib/src/codegen.rs b/core/lib/src/codegen.rs
index c517c432..76142669 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/codegen.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/codegen.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 use crate::{Request, Data};
 use crate::handler::{Outcome, ErrorHandler};
diff --git a/core/lib/src/data/data.rs b/core/lib/src/data/data.rs
index b996510c..eeeebbaf 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/data/data.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/data/data.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::future::Future;
 use std::io;
 use std::path::Path;
 
-use tokio_io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, AsyncReadExt as _};
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite};
 
 use super::data_stream::DataStream;
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ impl Data {
 
     /// A helper method to write the body of the request to any `Write` type.
     ///
-    /// This method is identical to `io::copy(&mut data.open(), writer)`.
+    /// This method is identical to `tokio::io::copy(&mut data.open(), &mut writer)`.
     ///
     /// # Example
     ///
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ impl Data {
     pub fn stream_to<'w, W: AsyncWrite + Unpin + 'w>(self, mut writer: W) -> impl Future<Output = io::Result<u64>> + 'w {
         Box::pin(async move {
             let mut stream = self.open();
-            stream.copy(&mut writer).await
+            tokio::io::copy(&mut stream, &mut writer).await
         })
     }
 
diff --git a/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs b/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
index dcc370b6..9e17da45 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 
-use tokio_io::AsyncRead;
+use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
 
 // TODO.async: Consider storing the real type here instead of a Box to avoid
 // the dynamic dispatch
diff --git a/core/lib/src/data/from_data.rs b/core/lib/src/data/from_data.rs
index 9ebc93f4..cc179a0f 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/data/from_data.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/data/from_data.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 use std::borrow::Borrow;
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 use futures_util::future::{ready, FutureExt};
-use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
 use crate::outcome::{self, IntoOutcome};
 use crate::outcome::Outcome::*;
diff --git a/core/lib/src/ext.rs b/core/lib/src/ext.rs
index 8c8e2da6..bf5a6264 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/ext.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/ext.rs
@@ -2,23 +2,23 @@ use std::io::{self, Cursor};
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Poll, Context};
 
-use futures_core::{ready, future::BoxFuture, stream::Stream};
-use tokio_io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt as _};
+use futures_util::{ready, future::BoxFuture, stream::Stream};
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt as _};
 
 use crate::http::hyper;
-use hyper::{Chunk, Payload};
+use hyper::{Bytes, HttpBody};
 
-pub struct IntoChunkStream<R> {
+pub struct IntoBytesStream<R> {
     inner: R,
     buf_size: usize,
     buffer: Vec<u8>,
 }
 
 // TODO.async: Verify correctness of this implementation.
-impl<R> Stream for IntoChunkStream<R>
+impl<R> Stream for IntoBytesStream<R>
     where R: AsyncRead + Unpin
 {
-    type Item = Result<Chunk, io::Error>;
+    type Item = Result<Bytes, io::Error>;
 
     fn poll_next(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>>{
         assert!(self.buffer.len() == self.buf_size);
@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ impl<R> Stream for IntoChunkStream<R>
             Poll::Ready(Ok(n)) => {
                 let mut next = std::mem::replace(buffer, vec![0; buf_size]);
                 next.truncate(n);
-                Poll::Ready(Some(Ok(Chunk::from(next))))
+                Poll::Ready(Some(Ok(Bytes::from(next))))
             }
         }
     }
 }
 
 pub trait AsyncReadExt: AsyncRead {
-    fn into_chunk_stream(self, buf_size: usize) -> IntoChunkStream<Self> where Self: Sized {
-        IntoChunkStream { inner: self, buf_size, buffer: vec![0; buf_size] }
+    fn into_bytes_stream(self, buf_size: usize) -> IntoBytesStream<Self> where Self: Sized {
+        IntoBytesStream { inner: self, buf_size, buffer: vec![0; buf_size] }
     }
 
     // TODO.async: Verify correctness of this implementation.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pub struct AsyncReadBody {
 
 enum AsyncReadBodyState {
     Pending,
-    Partial(Cursor<Chunk>),
+    Partial(Cursor<Bytes>),
     Done,
 }
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ impl AsyncRead for AsyncReadBody {
             match self.state {
                 AsyncReadBodyState::Pending => {
                     match ready!(Pin::new(&mut self.inner).poll_data(cx)) {
-                        Some(Ok(chunk)) => self.state = AsyncReadBodyState::Partial(Cursor::new(chunk)),
+                        Some(Ok(bytes)) => self.state = AsyncReadBodyState::Partial(Cursor::new(bytes)),
                         Some(Err(e)) => return Poll::Ready(Err(io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))),
                         None => self.state = AsyncReadBodyState::Done,
                     }
diff --git a/core/lib/src/fairing/ad_hoc.rs b/core/lib/src/fairing/ad_hoc.rs
index 8509c513..493dad81 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/fairing/ad_hoc.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/fairing/ad_hoc.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::sync::Mutex;
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 use crate::{Rocket, Request, Response, Data};
 use crate::fairing::{Fairing, Kind, Info};
diff --git a/core/lib/src/fairing/mod.rs b/core/lib/src/fairing/mod.rs
index f8fbc390..3f958f01 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/fairing/mod.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/fairing/mod.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 //! of other `Fairings` are not jeopardized. For instance, unless it is made
 //! abundantly clear, a fairing should not rewrite every request.
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 use crate::{Rocket, Request, Response, Data};
 
diff --git a/core/lib/src/handler.rs b/core/lib/src/handler.rs
index 7ce867b5..11ef07d7 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/handler.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/handler.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 //! Types and traits for request and error handlers and their return values.
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 use crate::data::Data;
 use crate::request::Request;
diff --git a/core/lib/src/lib.rs b/core/lib/src/lib.rs
index 03573e44..bdddab5f 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/lib.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/lib.rs
@@ -153,5 +153,10 @@ pub fn custom(config: config::Config) -> Rocket {
 /// WARNING: This is unstable! Do not use this method outside of Rocket!
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub fn async_test<R>(fut: impl std::future::Future<Output = R> + Send) -> R {
-    tokio::runtime::current_thread::Runtime::new().expect("create tokio runtime").block_on(fut)
+    tokio::runtime::Builder::new()
+        .basic_scheduler()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .expect("create tokio runtime")
+        .block_on(fut)
 }
diff --git a/core/lib/src/request/form/form.rs b/core/lib/src/request/form/form.rs
index 56ca9d0d..241cdcf2 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/request/form/form.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/request/form/form.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::ops::Deref;
 
-use tokio_io::AsyncReadExt;
+use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
 use crate::outcome::Outcome::*;
 use crate::request::{Request, form::{FromForm, FormItems, FormDataError}};
diff --git a/core/lib/src/request/from_request.rs b/core/lib/src/request/from_request.rs
index 3bd8b204..898c3701 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/request/from_request.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/request/from_request.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::fmt::Debug;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 use crate::router::Route;
 use crate::request::Request;
diff --git a/core/lib/src/response/mod.rs b/core/lib/src/response/mod.rs
index 3403ed2b..8d49b5e3 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/response/mod.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/response/mod.rs
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ pub use self::debug::Debug;
 /// Type alias for the `Result` of a `Responder::respond` call.
 pub type Result<'r> = std::result::Result<self::Response<'r>, crate::http::Status>;
 /// Type alias for the `Result` of a `Responder::respond` call.
-pub type ResultFuture<'r> = futures_core::future::BoxFuture<'r, Result<'r>>;
+pub type ResultFuture<'r> = futures_util::future::BoxFuture<'r, Result<'r>>;
diff --git a/core/lib/src/response/responder.rs b/core/lib/src/response/responder.rs
index 26da4e5d..62c95be1 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/response/responder.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/response/responder.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::Cursor;
 
 use futures_util::future::ready;
-use tokio_io::BufReader;
+use tokio::io::BufReader;
 
 use crate::http::{Status, ContentType, StatusClass};
 use crate::response::{self, Response, Body};
diff --git a/core/lib/src/response/response.rs b/core/lib/src/response/response.rs
index 48c5cedc..9b2c3495 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/response/response.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/response/response.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 
-use tokio_io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
 use futures_util::future::FutureExt;
 
 use crate::response::{Responder, ResultFuture};
@@ -1057,14 +1057,12 @@ impl<'r> Response<'r> {
     /// # Example
     ///
     /// ```rust
-    /// use futures::io::repeat;
-    /// use futures_tokio_compat::Compat;
-    /// use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
+    /// use tokio::io::{repeat, AsyncReadExt};
     /// use rocket::Response;
     ///
     /// # rocket::async_test(async {
     /// let mut response = Response::new();
-    /// response.set_streamed_body(Compat::new(repeat(97)).take(5));
+    /// response.set_streamed_body(repeat(97).take(5));
     /// assert_eq!(response.body_string().await, Some("aaaaa".to_string()));
     /// # })
     /// ```
@@ -1079,14 +1077,12 @@ impl<'r> Response<'r> {
     /// # Example
     ///
     /// ```rust
-    /// use futures::io::repeat;
-    /// use futures_tokio_compat::Compat;
-    /// use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
+    /// use tokio::io::{repeat, AsyncReadExt};
     /// use rocket::Response;
     ///
     /// # rocket::async_test(async {
     /// let mut response = Response::new();
-    /// response.set_chunked_body(Compat::new(repeat(97)).take(5), 10);
+    /// response.set_chunked_body(repeat(97).take(5), 10);
     /// assert_eq!(response.body_string().await, Some("aaaaa".to_string()));
     /// # })
     /// ```
diff --git a/core/lib/src/response/stream.rs b/core/lib/src/response/stream.rs
index eadb6754..1661a384 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/response/stream.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/response/stream.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::fmt::{self, Debug};
 
-use tokio_io::AsyncRead;
+use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
 
 use crate::request::Request;
 use crate::response::{Response, Responder, ResultFuture, DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE};
diff --git a/core/lib/src/rocket.rs b/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
index 49dfc60c..581384b1 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ use std::io;
 use std::mem;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use futures_core::future::{Future, BoxFuture};
-use futures_channel::{mpsc, oneshot};
-use futures_util::{future::FutureExt, stream::StreamExt};
+use futures_util::future::{Future, FutureExt, BoxFuture};
+use futures_util::stream::StreamExt;
+use tokio::sync::{mpsc, oneshot};
 
 use yansi::Paint;
 use state::Container;
@@ -120,16 +120,16 @@ impl Rocket {
         tx: oneshot::Sender<hyper::Response<hyper::Body>>,
     ) -> impl Future<Output = io::Result<()>> + 'r {
         async move {
-            let mut hyp_res = hyper::Response::builder();
-            hyp_res.status(response.status().code);
+            let mut hyp_res = hyper::Response::builder()
+                .status(response.status().code);
 
             for header in response.headers().iter() {
                 let name = header.name.as_str();
                 let value = header.value.as_bytes();
-                hyp_res.header(name, value);
+                hyp_res = hyp_res.header(name, value);
             }
 
-            let send_response = move |mut hyp_res: hyper::ResponseBuilder, body| -> io::Result<()> {
+            let send_response = move |hyp_res: hyper::ResponseBuilder, body| -> io::Result<()> {
                 let response = hyp_res.body(body).map_err(|e| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))?;
                 tx.send(response).expect("channel receiver should not be dropped");
                 Ok(())
@@ -137,15 +137,15 @@ impl Rocket {
 
             match response.body() {
                 None => {
-                    hyp_res.header(header::CONTENT_LENGTH, "0");
+                    hyp_res = hyp_res.header(header::CONTENT_LENGTH, "0");
                     send_response(hyp_res, hyper::Body::empty())?;
                 }
                 Some(Body::Sized(body, size)) => {
-                    hyp_res.header(header::CONTENT_LENGTH, size.to_string());
+                    hyp_res = hyp_res.header(header::CONTENT_LENGTH, size.to_string());
                     let (mut sender, hyp_body) = hyper::Body::channel();
                     send_response(hyp_res, hyp_body)?;
 
-                    let mut stream = body.into_chunk_stream(4096);
+                    let mut stream = body.into_bytes_stream(4096);
                     while let Some(next) = stream.next().await {
                         sender.send_data(next?).await.map_err(|e| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))?;
                     }
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ impl Rocket {
                     let (mut sender, hyp_body) = hyper::Body::channel();
                     send_response(hyp_res, hyp_body)?;
 
-                    let mut stream = body.into_chunk_stream(chunk_size.try_into().expect("u64 -> usize overflow"));
+                    let mut stream = body.into_bytes_stream(chunk_size.try_into().expect("u64 -> usize overflow"));
                     while let Some(next) = stream.next().await {
                         sender.send_data(next?).await.map_err(|e| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e))?;
                     }
@@ -760,41 +760,39 @@ impl Rocket {
             }
         });
 
-        // NB: executor must be passed manually here, see hyperium/hyper#1537
+        #[derive(Clone)]
+        struct TokioExecutor;
+
+        impl<Fut> hyper::Executor<Fut> for TokioExecutor where Fut: Future + Send + 'static, Fut::Output: Send {
+            fn execute(&self, fut: Fut) {
+                tokio::spawn(fut);
+            }
+        }
+
         hyper::Server::builder(Incoming::from_listener(listener))
-            .executor(tokio::executor::DefaultExecutor::current())
+            .executor(TokioExecutor)
             .serve(service)
-            .with_graceful_shutdown(async move { shutdown_receiver.next().await; })
+            .with_graceful_shutdown(async move { shutdown_receiver.recv().await; })
             .await
             .map_err(crate::error::Error::Run)
     }
 
-    /// Similar to `launch()`, but using a custom Tokio runtime and returning
-    /// a `Future` that completes along with the server. The runtime has no
-    /// restrictions other than being Tokio-based, and can have other tasks
-    /// running on it.
+    /// Returns a `Future` that completes when the server is shut down or
+    /// errors. If the `ctrl_c_shutdown` feature is enabled, `Ctrl-C` will be
+    /// handled as a shutdown signal.
     ///
     /// # Example
     ///
     /// ```rust
-    /// use futures::future::FutureExt;
-    ///
-    /// // This gives us the default behavior. Alternatively, we could use a
-    /// // `tokio::runtime::Builder` to configure with greater detail.
-    /// let runtime = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().expect("error creating runtime");
-    ///
+    /// #[tokio::main]
+    /// async fn main() {
     /// # if false {
-    /// let server_done = rocket::ignite().spawn_on(&runtime);
-    /// runtime.block_on(async move {
-    ///     let result = server_done.await;
+    ///     let result = rocket::ignite().serve().await;
     ///     assert!(result.is_ok());
-    /// });
     /// # }
+    /// }
     /// ```
-    pub fn spawn_on(
-        self,
-        runtime: &tokio::runtime::Runtime,
-    ) -> impl Future<Output = Result<(), crate::error::Error>> {
+    pub async fn serve(self) -> Result<(), crate::error::Error> {
         use std::net::ToSocketAddrs;
 
         use crate::error::Error::Launch;
@@ -802,7 +800,7 @@ impl Rocket {
         let full_addr = format!("{}:{}", self.config.address, self.config.port);
         let addrs = match full_addr.to_socket_addrs() {
             Ok(a) => a.collect::<Vec<_>>(),
-            Err(e) => return futures_util::future::ready(Err(Launch(From::from(e)))).boxed(),
+            Err(e) => return Err(Launch(From::from(e))),
         };
         let addr = addrs[0];
 
@@ -812,26 +810,26 @@ impl Rocket {
             (cancel_ctrl_c_listener_sender, cancel_ctrl_c_listener_receiver)
         ) = (
             self.get_shutdown_handle(),
-            oneshot::channel()
+            oneshot::channel(),
         );
 
-        let server = async move {
+        let server = {
             macro_rules! listen_on {
                 ($expr:expr) => {{
                     let listener = match $expr {
                         Ok(ok) => ok,
                         Err(err) => return Err(Launch(LaunchError::new(LaunchErrorKind::Bind(err)))),
                     };
-                    self.listen_on(listener).await
+                    self.listen_on(listener)
                 }};
             }
 
             #[cfg(feature = "tls")]
             {
                 if let Some(tls) = self.config.tls.clone() {
-                    listen_on!(crate::http::tls::bind_tls(addr, tls.certs, tls.key).await)
+                    listen_on!(crate::http::tls::bind_tls(addr, tls.certs, tls.key).await).boxed()
                 } else {
-                    listen_on!(crate::http::private::bind_tcp(addr).await)
+                    listen_on!(crate::http::private::bind_tcp(addr).await).boxed()
                 }
             }
             #[cfg(not(feature = "tls"))]
@@ -846,31 +844,30 @@ impl Rocket {
         });
 
         #[cfg(feature = "ctrl_c_shutdown")]
-        match tokio::net::signal::ctrl_c() {
-            Ok(mut ctrl_c) => {
-                runtime.spawn(async move {
-                    // Stop listening for `ctrl_c` if the server shuts down
-                    // a different way to avoid waiting forever.
-                    futures_util::future::select(
-                        ctrl_c.next(),
-                        cancel_ctrl_c_listener_receiver,
-                    ).await;
+        {
+            tokio::spawn(async move {
+                use futures_util::future::{select, Either};
 
-                    // Request the server shutdown.
-                    shutdown_handle.shutdown();
-                });
-            },
-            Err(err) => {
-                // Signal handling isn't strictly necessary, so we can skip it
-                // if necessary. It's a good idea to let the user know we're
-                // doing so in case they are expecting certain behavior.
-                let message = "Not listening for shutdown keybinding.";
-                warn!("{}", Paint::yellow(message));
-                info_!("Error: {}", err);
-            },
+                let either = select(
+                    tokio::signal::ctrl_c().boxed(),
+                    cancel_ctrl_c_listener_receiver,
+                ).await;
+
+                match either {
+                    Either::Left((Ok(()), _)) | Either::Right((_, _)) => shutdown_handle.shutdown(),
+                    Either::Left((Err(err), _)) => {
+                        // Signal handling isn't strictly necessary, so we can skip it
+                        // if necessary. It's a good idea to let the user know we're
+                        // doing so in case they are expecting certain behavior.
+                        let message = "Not listening for shutdown keybinding.";
+                        warn!("{}", Paint::yellow(message));
+                        info_!("Error: {}", err);
+                    }
+                }
+            });
         }
 
-        server.boxed()
+        server.await
     }
 
     /// Starts the application server and begins listening for and dispatching
@@ -893,14 +890,15 @@ impl Rocket {
     /// # }
     /// ```
     pub fn launch(self) -> Result<(), crate::error::Error> {
-        // TODO.async What meaning should config.workers have now?
         // Initialize the tokio runtime
-        let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new()
-            .core_threads(self.config.workers as usize)
+        let mut runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new()
+            .threaded_scheduler()
+            .num_threads(self.config.workers as usize)
+            .enable_all()
             .build()
             .expect("Cannot build runtime!");
 
-        runtime.block_on(self.spawn_on(&runtime))
+        runtime.block_on(async move { self.serve().await })
     }
 
     /// Returns a [`ShutdownHandle`], which can be used to gracefully terminate
diff --git a/core/lib/src/router/mod.rs b/core/lib/src/router/mod.rs
index 2167c513..0ab30640 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/router/mod.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/router/mod.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ mod route;
 
 use std::collections::hash_map::HashMap;
 
-use futures_core::future::BoxFuture;
+use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 
 pub use self::route::Route;
 
diff --git a/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs b/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
index 7eaab993..d7b7360a 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::request::{FromRequest, Outcome, Request};
-use futures_channel::mpsc;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc;
 
 /// # Example
 ///
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ impl ShutdownHandle {
         // Intentionally ignore any error, as the only scenarios this can happen
         // is sending too many shutdown requests or we're already shut down.
         let _ = self.0.try_send(());
+        info!("Server shutdown requested, waiting for all pending requests to finish.");
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/core/lib/tests/head_handling.rs b/core/lib/tests/head_handling.rs
index d000cc06..026b6b67 100644
--- a/core/lib/tests/head_handling.rs
+++ b/core/lib/tests/head_handling.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ fn other() -> content::Json<&'static str> {
 mod head_handling_tests {
     use super::*;
 
-    use tokio_io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
+    use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
 
     use rocket::Route;
     use rocket::local::Client;
diff --git a/examples/content_types/Cargo.toml b/examples/content_types/Cargo.toml
index bb192c2d..70e6c88f 100644
--- a/examples/content_types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/content_types/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
-tokio = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["io-util"] }
 rocket = { path = "../../core/lib" }
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml b/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
index 5676090d..7fe20bbb 100644
--- a/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 rocket = { path = "../../core/lib" }
-tokio = "=0.2.0-alpha.6"
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["io-util"] }
diff --git a/examples/stream/Cargo.toml b/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
index bd27fe4f..9b5728d2 100644
--- a/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,4 @@ publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 rocket = { path = "../../core/lib" }
-tokio = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
-futures-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.19"
-futures-tokio-compat = { git = "https://github.com/Nemo157/futures-tokio-compat", rev = "8a93702" }
+tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["fs", "io-util"] }
diff --git a/examples/stream/src/main.rs b/examples/stream/src/main.rs
index 8852a4c3..939b5a28 100644
--- a/examples/stream/src/main.rs
+++ b/examples/stream/src/main.rs
@@ -6,17 +6,15 @@
 
 use rocket::response::{content, Stream};
 
-use futures::io::repeat;
-use futures_tokio_compat::Compat;
 use tokio::fs::File;
-use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
+use tokio::io::{repeat, AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
 
 // Generate this file using: head -c BYTES /dev/random > big_file.dat
 const FILENAME: &str = "big_file.dat";
 
 #[get("/")]
 fn root() -> content::Plain<Stream<impl AsyncRead>> {
-    content::Plain(Stream::from(Compat::new(repeat('a' as u8)).take(25000)))
+    content::Plain(Stream::from(repeat('a' as u8).take(25000)))
 }
 
 #[get("/big_file")]