diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5897b1fb3789..6d1701f90d7a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 - Updating `dirs 4.0.0 -> 5.0.1` and `cargo_metadata 0.15.4 -> 0.18.0` [#6033] (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/6033)
+- Bumped bytecount `0.6.4` -> `0.6.8` to fix compilation issues with the `generic-simd` feature. See [bytecount#92] and [bytecount#93]
+
+[bytecount#92]: https://github.com/llogiq/bytecount/pull/92
+[bytecount#93]: https://github.com/llogiq/bytecount/pull/93
 
 ## [1.7.0] 2023-10-22
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b5032945e7e3..3d0233f4cf39 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -98,12 +98,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytecount"
-version = "0.6.4"
+version = "0.6.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ad152d03a2c813c80bb94fedbf3a3f02b28f793e39e7c214c8a0bcc196343de7"
-dependencies = [
- "packed_simd",
-]
+checksum = "5ce89b21cab1437276d2650d57e971f9d548a2d9037cc231abdc0562b97498ce"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "camino"
@@ -369,12 +366,6 @@ version = "0.2.141"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3304a64d199bb964be99741b7a14d26972741915b3649639149b2479bb46f4b5"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "libm"
-version = "0.2.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4ec2a862134d2a7d32d7983ddcdd1c4923530833c9f2ea1a44fc5fa473989058"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
 version = "0.4.16"
@@ -409,16 +400,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "num-traits"
-version = "0.2.17"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "39e3200413f237f41ab11ad6d161bc7239c84dcb631773ccd7de3dfe4b5c267c"
-dependencies = [
- "autocfg",
- "libm",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "once_cell"
 version = "1.17.1"
@@ -437,16 +418,6 @@ version = "0.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "packed_simd"
-version = "0.3.9"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1f9f08af0c877571712e2e3e686ad79efad9657dbf0f7c3c8ba943ff6c38932d"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "num-traits",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project-lite"
 version = "0.2.9"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c98200c23d48..5cd9193166cb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ generic-simd = ["bytecount/generic-simd"]
 [dependencies]
 annotate-snippets = { version = "0.9", features = ["color"] }
 anyhow = "1.0"
-bytecount = "0.6.4"
+bytecount = "0.6.8"
 cargo_metadata = "0.18"
 clap = { version = "4.4.2", features = ["derive"] }
 clap-cargo = "0.12.0"