diff --git a/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml b/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
index b34ddeea..f775af38 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/contrib/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 # Internal use only.
 templates = ["serde", "serde_json", "glob", "notify"]
 databases = [
-    "serde", "r2d2", "tokio/blocking", "tokio/rt-threaded",
+    "serde", "r2d2", "tokio/rt", "tokio/rt-multi-thread",
     "rocket_contrib_codegen/database_attribute"
 ]
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ memcache_pool = ["databases", "memcache", "r2d2-memcache"]
 
 [dependencies]
 # Global dependencies.
-tokio = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", 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"
diff --git a/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs b/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
index 0a1ac811..5a4d7ab2 100644
--- a/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
+++ b/contrib/lib/src/databases.rs
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ impl<K: 'static, C: Poolable> ConnectionPool<K, C> {
     async fn get(&self) -> Result<Connection<K, C>, ()> {
         let duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(self.config.timeout as u64);
         let permit = match timeout(duration, self.semaphore.clone().acquire_owned()).await {
-            Ok(p) => p,
+            Ok(p) => p.expect("internal invariant broken: semaphore should not be closed"),
             Err(_) => {
                 error_!("database connection retrieval timed out");
                 return Err(());
diff --git a/core/http/Cargo.toml b/core/http/Cargo.toml
index 9e0d4947..fad87ea4 100644
--- a/core/http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/http/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ private-cookies = ["cookie/private", "cookie/key-expansion"]
 [dependencies]
 smallvec = "1.0"
 percent-encoding = "2"
-hyper = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false, features = ["runtime"] }
+hyper = { version = "0.14", default-features = false, features = ["http1", "http2", "runtime", "server", "stream"] }
 http = "0.2"
 mime = "0.3.13"
 time = "0.2.11"
 indexmap = { version = "1.5.2", features = ["std"] }
 state = "0.4"
-tokio-rustls = { version = "0.14.0", optional = true }
-tokio = { version = "0.2.9", features = ["sync", "tcp", "time"] }
+tokio-rustls = { version = "0.22.0", optional = true }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["net", "sync", "time"] }
 unicode-xid = "0.2"
 log = "0.4"
 ref-cast = "1.0"
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ uncased = "0.9"
 parking_lot = "0.11"
 either = "1"
 pear = "0.2"
+pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 
 [dependencies.cookie]
 git = "https://github.com/SergioBenitez/cookie-rs.git"
diff --git a/core/http/src/hyper.rs b/core/http/src/hyper.rs
index c84102e9..cb007e81 100644
--- a/core/http/src/hyper.rs
+++ b/core/http/src/hyper.rs
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 //! These types will, with certainty, be removed with time, but they reside here
 //! while necessary.
 
-#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::{Body, Request, Response, Server};
+#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::{Body, Error, Request, Response};
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::body::{Bytes, HttpBody, Sender as BodySender};
-#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::error::Error;
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::rt::Executor;
+#[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::server::Server;
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use hyper::service::{make_service_fn, service_fn, Service};
 
 #[doc(hidden)] pub use http::header::HeaderMap;
diff --git a/core/http/src/listener.rs b/core/http/src/listener.rs
index fe998abe..f3265d0a 100644
--- a/core/http/src/listener.rs
+++ b/core/http/src/listener.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use hyper::server::accept::Accept;
 
 use log::{debug, error};
 
-use tokio::time::Delay;
+use tokio::time::Sleep;
 use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite};
 use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
 
@@ -32,15 +32,18 @@ pub trait Connection: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite {
     fn remote_addr(&self) -> Option<SocketAddr>;
 }
 
-/// This is a generic version of hyper's AddrIncoming that is intended to be
-/// usable with listeners other than a plain TCP stream, e.g. TLS and/or Unix
-/// sockets. It does so by bridging the `Listener` trait to what hyper wants (an
-/// Accept). This type is internal to Rocket.
-#[must_use = "streams do nothing unless polled"]
-pub struct Incoming<L> {
-    listener: L,
-    sleep_on_errors: Option<Duration>,
-    pending_error_delay: Option<Delay>,
+pin_project_lite::pin_project! {
+    /// This is a generic version of hyper's AddrIncoming that is intended to be
+    /// usable with listeners other than a plain TCP stream, e.g. TLS and/or Unix
+    /// sockets. It does so by bridging the `Listener` trait to what hyper wants (an
+    /// Accept). This type is internal to Rocket.
+    #[must_use = "streams do nothing unless polled"]
+    pub struct Incoming<L> {
+        listener: L,
+        sleep_on_errors: Option<Duration>,
+        #[pin]
+        pending_error_delay: Option<Sleep>,
+    }
 }
 
 impl<L: Listener> Incoming<L> {
@@ -72,18 +75,19 @@ impl<L: Listener> Incoming<L> {
         self.sleep_on_errors = val;
     }
 
-    fn poll_next(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<io::Result<L::Connection>> {
-        // Check if a previous delay is active that was set by IO errors.
-        if let Some(ref mut delay) = self.pending_error_delay {
-            match Pin::new(delay).poll(cx) {
-                Poll::Ready(()) => {}
-                Poll::Pending => return Poll::Pending,
-            }
-        }
-        self.pending_error_delay = None;
-
+    fn poll_next(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<io::Result<L::Connection>> {
+        let mut me = self.project();
         loop {
-            match self.listener.poll_accept(cx) {
+            // Check if a previous sleep timer is active that was set by IO errors.
+            if let Some(delay) = me.pending_error_delay.as_mut().as_pin_mut() {
+                match delay.poll(cx) {
+                    Poll::Ready(()) => {}
+                    Poll::Pending => return Poll::Pending,
+                }
+            }
+            me.pending_error_delay.set(None);
+
+            match me.listener.poll_accept(cx) {
                 Poll::Ready(Ok(stream)) => {
                     return Poll::Ready(Ok(stream));
                 },
@@ -96,22 +100,11 @@ impl<L: Listener> Incoming<L> {
                         continue;
                     }
 
-                    if let Some(duration) = self.sleep_on_errors {
+                    if let Some(duration) = me.sleep_on_errors {
                         error!("accept error: {}", e);
 
                         // Sleep for the specified duration
-                        let mut error_delay = tokio::time::delay_for(duration);
-
-                        match Pin::new(&mut error_delay).poll(cx) {
-                            Poll::Ready(()) => {
-                                // Wow, it's been a second already? Ok then...
-                                continue
-                            },
-                            Poll::Pending => {
-                                self.pending_error_delay = Some(error_delay);
-                                return Poll::Pending;
-                            },
-                        }
+                        me.pending_error_delay.set(Some(tokio::time::sleep(*duration)));
                     } else {
                         return Poll::Ready(Err(e));
                     }
@@ -126,7 +119,7 @@ impl<L: Listener + Unpin> Accept for Incoming<L> {
     type Error = io::Error;
 
     fn poll_accept(
-        mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
         cx: &mut Context<'_>
     ) -> Poll<Option<io::Result<Self::Conn>>> {
         self.poll_next(cx).map(Some)
@@ -169,7 +162,7 @@ impl Listener for TcpListener {
     }
 
     fn poll_accept(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<io::Result<Self::Connection>> {
-        self.poll_accept(cx).map_ok(|(stream, _addr)| stream)
+        (*self).poll_accept(cx).map_ok(|(stream, _addr)| stream)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/core/lib/Cargo.toml b/core/lib/Cargo.toml
index c99ebcec..de6cced3 100644
--- a/core/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ rand = "0.7"
 either = "1"
 
 [dependencies.tokio]
-version = "0.2.9"
-features = ["fs", "io-std", "io-util", "rt-threaded", "sync", "signal", "macros"]
+version = "1.0"
+features = ["fs", "io-std", "io-util", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "signal", "macros"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
 yansi = "0.5"
diff --git a/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs b/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
index b1e6b776..a968ec42 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/data/data_stream.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::io::{self, Cursor};
 
-use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, AsyncReadExt, Take};
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, AsyncReadExt, ReadBuf, Take};
 
 use crate::ext::AsyncReadBody;
 
@@ -116,12 +116,12 @@ impl AsyncRead for DataStream {
     fn poll_read(
         mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
         cx: &mut Context<'_>,
-        buf: &mut [u8]
-    ) -> Poll<io::Result<usize>> {
+        buf: &mut ReadBuf<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<io::Result<()>> {
         if self.buffer.limit() > 0 {
             trace_!("DataStream::buffer_read()");
             match Pin::new(&mut self.buffer).poll_read(cx, buf) {
-                Poll::Ready(Ok(0)) => { /* fall through */ },
+                Poll::Ready(Ok(())) if buf.filled().is_empty() => { /* fall through */ },
                 poll => return poll,
             }
         }
diff --git a/core/lib/src/ext.rs b/core/lib/src/ext.rs
index 97bfa760..d851a507 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/ext.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/ext.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Poll, Context};
 
 use futures::{ready, stream::Stream};
-use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, ReadBuf};
 
 use crate::http::hyper::{self, Bytes, HttpBody};
 
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ impl<R> Stream for IntoBytesStream<R>
 
         let Self { ref mut inner, ref mut buffer, buf_size } = *self;
 
-        match Pin::new(inner).poll_read(cx, &mut buffer[..]) {
+        let mut buf = ReadBuf::new(&mut buffer[..]);
+        match Pin::new(inner).poll_read(cx, &mut buf) {
             Poll::Pending => Poll::Pending,
             Poll::Ready(Err(e)) => Poll::Ready(Some(Err(e))),
-            Poll::Ready(Ok(n)) if n == 0 => Poll::Ready(None),
-            Poll::Ready(Ok(n)) => {
+            Poll::Ready(Ok(())) if buf.filled().is_empty() => Poll::Ready(None),
+            Poll::Ready(Ok(())) => {
+                let n = buf.filled().len();
                 // FIXME(perf).
                 let mut next = std::mem::replace(buffer, vec![0; buf_size]);
                 next.truncate(n);
@@ -72,8 +74,8 @@ impl AsyncRead for AsyncReadBody {
     fn poll_read(
         mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
         cx: &mut Context<'_>,
-        buf: &mut [u8]
-    ) -> Poll<io::Result<usize>> {
+        buf: &mut ReadBuf<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<io::Result<()>> {
         loop {
             match self.state {
                 State::Pending => {
@@ -90,11 +92,11 @@ impl AsyncRead for AsyncReadBody {
                 },
                 State::Partial(ref mut cursor) => {
                     match ready!(Pin::new(cursor).poll_read(cx, buf)) {
-                        Ok(n) if n == 0 => self.state = State::Pending,
+                        Ok(()) if buf.filled().is_empty() => self.state = State::Pending,
                         result => return Poll::Ready(result),
                     }
                 }
-                State::Done => return Poll::Ready(Ok(0)),
+                State::Done => return Poll::Ready(Ok(())),
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/core/lib/src/lib.rs b/core/lib/src/lib.rs
index 6d98739e..e9cd26a9 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/lib.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/lib.rs
@@ -164,10 +164,9 @@ pub fn custom<T: figment::Provider>(provider: T) -> 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::Builder::new()
-        .threaded_scheduler()
+    tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
         .thread_name("rocket-test-worker-thread")
-        .core_threads(1)
+        .worker_threads(1)
         .enable_all()
         .build()
         .expect("create tokio runtime")
@@ -180,9 +179,8 @@ pub fn async_main<R>(fut: impl std::future::Future<Output = R> + Send) -> R {
     // FIXME: The `workers` value won't reflect swaps of `Rocket` in attach
     // fairings with different config values, or values from non-Rocket configs.
     // See tokio-rs/tokio#3329 for a necessary solution in `tokio`.
-    tokio::runtime::Builder::new()
-        .threaded_scheduler()
-        .core_threads(Config::from(Config::figment()).workers)
+    tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .worker_threads(Config::from(Config::figment()).workers)
         .thread_name("rocket-worker-thread")
         .enable_all()
         .build()
diff --git a/core/lib/src/local/asynchronous/response.rs b/core/lib/src/local/asynchronous/response.rs
index 29b19bc5..57547b15 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/local/asynchronous/response.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/local/asynchronous/response.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::io;
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::{pin::Pin, task::{Context, Poll}};
 
-use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, ReadBuf};
 
 use crate::http::CookieJar;
 use crate::{Request, Response};
@@ -125,11 +125,11 @@ impl AsyncRead for LocalResponse<'_> {
     fn poll_read(
         mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
         cx: &mut Context<'_>,
-        buf: &mut [u8]
-    ) -> Poll<io::Result<usize>> {
+        buf: &mut ReadBuf<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<io::Result<()>> {
         let body = match self.response.body_mut() {
             Some(body) => body,
-            _ => return Poll::Ready(Ok(0))
+            _ => return Poll::Ready(Ok(()))
         };
 
         Pin::new(body.as_reader()).poll_read(cx, buf)
diff --git a/core/lib/src/local/blocking/client.rs b/core/lib/src/local/blocking/client.rs
index e4f4e5d4..108b907e 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/local/blocking/client.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/local/blocking/client.rs
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ pub struct Client {
 
 impl Client {
     fn _new(rocket: Rocket, tracked: bool) -> Result<Client, Error> {
-        let mut runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new()
-            .basic_scheduler()
+        let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
             .enable_all()
             .build()
             .expect("create tokio runtime");
diff --git a/core/lib/src/rocket.rs b/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
index 03752759..5b2655d8 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/rocket.rs
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ impl Rocket {
         let (rocket, mut fairings) = match tokio::runtime::Handle::try_current() {
             Ok(handle) => {
                 std::thread::spawn(move || {
-                    handle.block_on(future)
+                    let _e = handle.enter();
+                    futures::executor::block_on(future)
                 }).join().unwrap()
             }
             Err(_) => {
diff --git a/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs b/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
index 6f34fd6c..68f9e6cb 100644
--- a/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
+++ b/core/lib/src/shutdown.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ impl Shutdown {
     /// immediately; pending requests will continue to run until completion
     /// before the actual shutdown occurs.
     #[inline]
-    pub fn shutdown(mut self) {
+    pub fn shutdown(self) {
         // 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(());
diff --git a/core/lib/tests/timer-on-attach.rs b/core/lib/tests/timer-on-attach.rs
index 700e11de..35af26b2 100644
--- a/core/lib/tests/timer-on-attach.rs
+++ b/core/lib/tests/timer-on-attach.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ async fn test_await_timer_inside_attach() {
     async fn do_async_setup() {
         // By using a timer or I/O resource, we ensure that do_async_setup will
         // deadlock if no thread is able to tick the time or I/O drivers.
-        rocket::tokio::time::delay_for(std::time::Duration::from_millis(100)).await;
+        rocket::tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(100)).await;
     }
 
     rocket::ignite()
diff --git a/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml b/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
index 7fe20bbb..8519ae94 100644
--- a/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/manual_routes/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 rocket = { path = "../../core/lib" }
-tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["io-util"] }
diff --git a/examples/stream/Cargo.toml b/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
index 9b5728d2..96792d90 100644
--- a/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/stream/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 rocket = { path = "../../core/lib" }
-tokio = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["fs", "io-util"] }
diff --git a/examples/stream/src/main.rs b/examples/stream/src/main.rs
index a733698b..a0b15432 100644
--- a/examples/stream/src/main.rs
+++ b/examples/stream/src/main.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 use rocket::response::{content, Stream};
 
-use tokio::fs::File;
-use tokio::io::{repeat, AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
+use rocket::tokio::fs::File;
+use rocket::tokio::io::{repeat, AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
 
 // Generate this file using: head -c BYTES /dev/random > big_file.dat
 const FILENAME: &str = "big_file.dat";
diff --git a/site/guide/4-requests.md b/site/guide/4-requests.md
index bb63a749..c8bfbae7 100644
--- a/site/guide/4-requests.md
+++ b/site/guide/4-requests.md
@@ -999,16 +999,16 @@ Rocket makes it easy to use `async/await` in routes.
 
 ```rust
 # #[macro_use] extern crate rocket;
-use rocket::tokio::time::{delay_for, Duration};
+use rocket::tokio::time::{sleep, Duration};
 #[get("/delay/<seconds>")]
 async fn delay(seconds: u64) -> String {
-    delay_for(Duration::from_secs(seconds)).await;
+    sleep(Duration::from_secs(seconds)).await;
     format!("Waited for {} seconds", seconds)
 }
 ```
 
 First, notice that the route function is an `async fn`. This enables
-the use of `await` inside the handler. `delay_for` is an asynchronous
+the use of `await` inside the handler. `sleep` is an asynchronous
 function, so we must `await` it.
 
 ## Error Catchers