diff --git a/.github/workflows/deadpool.yml b/.github/workflows/deadpool.yml
index baaafcec..cc1b7b31 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deadpool.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deadpool.yml
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@v1
         with:
           components: rustc,rust-std,cargo
-          toolchain: "1.75"
-      - run: ../../tools/cargo-update-minimal-versions.sh 1.75
+          toolchain: "1.80"
+      - run: ../../tools/cargo-update-minimal-versions.sh 1.80
       - run: cargo check --all-features
   rustdoc:
     name: Doc
diff --git a/crates/deadpool/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/deadpool/CHANGELOG.md
index 3f6006d3..6e21f966 100644
--- a/crates/deadpool/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/deadpool/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 <!-- next-header -->
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+- Remove lazy_static dependency
+- Bump up MSRV to `1.80`
+
 ## [0.12.3] - 2025-08-19
 
 - Add unique `id` to objects which can be read via the `Object::id` method
diff --git a/crates/deadpool/Cargo.toml b/crates/deadpool/Cargo.toml
index 3af93d60..8e05e46f 100644
--- a/crates/deadpool/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/deadpool/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [package]
 name = "deadpool"
-version = "0.12.3"
+version = "0.12.4"
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.75"
+rust-version = "1.80"
 authors = ["Michael P. Jung <michael.jung@terreon.de>"]
 description = "Dead simple async pool"
 keywords = ["async", "database", "pool"]
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ rt_tokio_1 = ["deadpool-runtime/tokio_1"]
 rt_async-std_1 = ["deadpool-runtime/async-std_1"]
 
 [dependencies]
-lazy_static = "1.5.0"
 num_cpus = "1.11.1"
 # `serde` feature
 serde = { version = "1.0.103", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.5", features = ["sync"] }
 [dev-dependencies]
 async-std = { version = "1.0", features = ["attributes"] }
 config = { version = "0.15", features = ["json"] }
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports", "async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.7", features = ["html_reports", "async_tokio"] }
 itertools = "0.14"
 tokio = { version = "1.5.0", features = [
     "macros",
diff --git a/crates/deadpool/src/util.rs b/crates/deadpool/src/util.rs
index 533b9114..bd2000b1 100644
--- a/crates/deadpool/src/util.rs
+++ b/crates/deadpool/src/util.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-lazy_static::lazy_static! {
-    /// Cache the physical CPU count to avoid calling `num_cpus::get()`
-    /// multiple times, which is expensive when creating pools in quick
-    /// succession.
-    static ref CPU_COUNT: usize = num_cpus::get();
-}
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
+
+/// Cache the physical CPU cofunt to avoid calling `num_cpus::get()`
+/// multiple times, which is expensive when creating pools in quick
+/// succession.
+static CPU_COUNT: LazyLock<usize> = LazyLock::new(num_cpus::get);
 
 /// Get the default maximum size of a pool, which is `cpu_core_count * 2`
 /// including logical cores (Hyper-Threading).