diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 503b7496af..e41fca3ffd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc 0.2.66 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "log 0.4.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "num_cpus 1.12.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "rusty_v8 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "rusty_v8 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde_json 1.0.44 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "tokio 0.2.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "url 2.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rusty_v8"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum rustc-demangle 0.1.16 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "4c691c0e608126e00913e33f0ccf3727d5fc84573623b8d65b2df340b5201783"
 "checksum rustls 0.16.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "b25a18b1bf7387f0145e7f8324e700805aade3842dd3db2e74e4cdeb4677c09e"
 "checksum rustls-native-certs 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "51ffebdbb48c14f84eba0b715197d673aff1dd22cc1007ca647e28483bbcc307"
-"checksum rusty_v8 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "4df92150d6a81664988f755ecb39f5ed0b89722fd90990a0da9f28c4b1d2a48a"
+"checksum rusty_v8 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "8ed9530934df58a5be648916e142858b473558a0df6356b59e083c1c3c2f7d32"
 "checksum rustyline 5.0.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a23cb19702a8d6afb6edb3c842386e680d4883760e0df74e6848e23c2a87a635"
 "checksum ryu 1.0.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bfa8506c1de11c9c4e4c38863ccbe02a305c8188e85a05a784c9e11e1c3910c8"
 "checksum schannel 0.1.16 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "87f550b06b6cba9c8b8be3ee73f391990116bf527450d2556e9b9ce263b9a021"
diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index c8fc6c12f0..a9c2490a01 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ libc = "0.2.66"
 log = "0.4.8"
 serde_json = "1.0.44"
 url = "2.1.0"
-rusty_v8 = "0.2.0"
+rusty_v8 = "0.2.1"
 
 [[example]]
 name = "deno_core_http_bench"
diff --git a/core/shared_queue.rs b/core/shared_queue.rs
index 0d2fc15c3e..d692844049 100644
--- a/core/shared_queue.rs
+++ b/core/shared_queue.rs
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ impl SharedQueue {
     let mut buf = Vec::new();
     buf.resize(HEAD_INIT + len, 0);
     let buf = buf.into_boxed_slice();
-    let buf =
-      unsafe { v8::SharedArrayBuffer::new_backing_store_from_boxed_slice(buf) };
+    let buf = v8::SharedArrayBuffer::new_backing_store_from_boxed_slice(buf);
     let mut q = Self {
       buf: buf.make_shared(),
     };