diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e07b5a5e..0f454fe6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/tar"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 keywords = ["tar", "tarfile", "encoding"]
 readme = "README.md"
-edition = "2018"
+edition = "2021"
 exclude = ["tests/archives/*"]
 
 description = """
diff --git a/src/entry.rs b/src/entry.rs
index 8a453073..c5cef6b7 100644
--- a/src/entry.rs
+++ b/src/entry.rs
@@ -730,7 +730,6 @@ impl<'a> EntryFields<'a> {
             uid: u64,
             gid: u64,
         ) -> io::Result<()> {
-            use std::convert::TryInto;
             use std::os::unix::prelude::*;
 
             let uid: libc::uid_t = uid.try_into().map_err(|_| {