diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c2796ad..bfb03aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2208,6 +2208,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "minimal-lexical",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nom8"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ae01545c9c7fc4486ab7debaf2aad7003ac19431791868fb2e8066df97fad2f8"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "normalize-line-endings"
 version = "0.3.0"
@@ -3077,6 +3086,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_spanned"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2c68e921cef53841b8925c2abadd27c9b891d9613bdc43d6b823062866df38e8"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_urlencoded"
 version = "0.7.1"
@@ -3510,11 +3528,36 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
-version = "0.5.11"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f4f7f0dd8d50a853a531c426359045b1998f04219d88799810762cd4ad314234"
+checksum = "2f560bc7fb3eb31f5eee1340c68a2160cad39605b7b9c9ec32045ddbdee13b85"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
+ "serde_spanned",
+ "toml_datetime",
+ "toml_edit",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "toml_datetime"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "886f31a9b85b6182cabd4d8b07df3b451afcc216563748201490940d2a28ed36"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "toml_edit"
+version = "0.19.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "233d8716cdc5d20ec88a18a839edaf545edc71efa4a5ff700ef4a102c26cd8fa"
+dependencies = [
+ "indexmap",
+ "nom8",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_spanned",
+ "toml_datetime",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/lychee-bin/Cargo.toml b/lychee-bin/Cargo.toml
index 5358c7c..8afd57a 100644
--- a/lychee-bin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lychee-bin/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ ring = "0.16.20"
 serde = { version = "1.0.152", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.91"
 tabled = "0.10.0"
+toml = "0.7.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.25.0", features = ["full"] }
-toml = "0.5.11"
 futures = "0.3.25"
 tokio-stream = "0.1.11"
 once_cell = "1.17.0"
diff --git a/lychee-bin/src/options.rs b/lychee-bin/src/options.rs
index 372b664..d662a59 100644
--- a/lychee-bin/src/options.rs
+++ b/lychee-bin/src/options.rs
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ impl Config {
     /// Load configuration from a file
     pub(crate) fn load_from_file(path: &str) -> Result<Option<Config>> {
         // Read configuration file
-        let result = fs::read(path);
+        let result = fs::read_to_string(path);
 
         // Ignore a file-not-found error
         let contents = match result {
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ impl Config {
             }
         };
 
-        Ok(Some(toml::from_slice(&contents)?))
+        Ok(Some(toml::from_str(&contents)?))
     }
 
     /// Merge the configuration from TOML into the CLI configuration