diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fb80d8e2f..5a5f3ba0f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ clap_complete = "4.5.0"
 lru = "0.18.0"
 
 # HTML to Markdown conversion (feature gated)
-html-to-markdown-rs = { version = "2.3", optional = true }
+html-to-markdown-rs = { version = "3.8", optional = true }
 readability-js = { version = "0.1.5", optional = true }
 kuchiki = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 ed25519-dalek = { version = "2.2.0", features = ["std"] }
diff --git a/fuzz/Cargo.lock b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
index 04a4b7c5f..6cede121c 100644
--- a/fuzz/Cargo.lock
+++ b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy-regex",
  "libc",
  "libsql",
- "lru 0.18.1",
+ "lru",
  "mime_guess",
  "open",
  "pdf-extract",
@@ -2521,11 +2521,6 @@ name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.16.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "841d1cc9bed7f9236f321df977030373f4a4163ae1a7dbfe1a51a2c1a51d9100"
-dependencies = [
- "allocator-api2",
- "equivalent",
- "foldhash",
-]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
@@ -2626,17 +2621,20 @@ checksum = "46c1ff2d1cbf39efe5af0900ced8a069b5e61557a17544eb0c4a50239937389e"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "html-to-markdown-rs"
-version = "2.30.0"
+version = "3.8.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7ea41945a2fd834381642a000ef75b03f0030f3023f3dd3291fc5c372d3dda33"
+checksum = "bfb98086035f41cf7bcdb6bd1dab14b118e53b035e003e268698a6003c413fa0"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash 0.8.12",
  "astral-tl",
  "base64 0.22.1",
+ "bitflags 2.13.1",
  "html-escape",
  "html5ever 0.39.0",
- "lru 0.16.4",
+ "lru",
+ "memchr",
  "once_cell",
+ "phf 0.14.0",
  "regex",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -3558,15 +3556,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "weezl",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "lru"
-version = "0.16.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7f66e8d5d03f609abc3a39e6f08e4164ebf1447a732906d39eb9b99b7919ef39"
-dependencies = [
- "hashbrown 0.16.1",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lru"
 version = "0.18.1"
@@ -4153,6 +4142,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf"
+version = "0.14.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "010378780309880b08997fae13be7834dba947d36393bd372f2b1556deb2a2f6"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_macros 0.14.0",
+ "phf_shared 0.14.0",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "phf_codegen"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -4213,6 +4213,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "phf_shared 0.13.1",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_generator"
+version = "0.14.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aeb62e0959d5a1bebc965f4d15d9e2b7cea002b6b0f5ba8cde6cc26738467100"
+dependencies = [
+ "fastrand",
+ "phf_shared 0.14.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "phf_macros"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -4240,6 +4250,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.119",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_macros"
+version = "0.14.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5fa8d0ca26d424d27630da600c6624696e7dec8bf7b3b492b383c5dc49e5e085"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_generator 0.14.0",
+ "phf_shared 0.14.0",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.119",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "phf_shared"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -4277,6 +4300,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "siphasher 1.0.3",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_shared"
+version = "0.14.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c6fd9027e2d9319be6349febd1db4e8d02aa544921200c9b777720ac34a3aa89"
+dependencies = [
+ "siphasher 1.0.3",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project"
 version = "1.1.13"