diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 690072b1..6bae0658 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ inventory = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
 
 # crate integrations that can be added using the eponymous features
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
-chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, optional = true }
+chrono = { version = "0.4.25", default-features = false, optional = true }
 eyre = { version = ">= 0.4, < 0.7", optional = true }
 hashbrown = { version = ">= 0.9, < 0.15", optional = true }
 indexmap = { version = ">= 1.6, < 3", optional = true }
diff --git a/newsfragments/3512.fixed.md b/newsfragments/3512.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..39b80876
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/3512.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix minimum version specification for optional `chrono` dependency