diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ecb28891d..62b4d41be 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ hyper-openssl = "0.10.2"
 hyper-rustls = { version = "0.27.1", default-features = false }
 hyper-socks2 = { version = "0.9.0", default-features = false }
 hyper-timeout = "0.5.1"
-json-patch = "2.0.0"
-jsonptr = "0.4.7"
+json-patch = "3"
+jsonptr = "0.6"
 jsonpath-rust = "0.5.0"
 k8s-openapi = { version = "0.23.0", default-features = false }
 openssl = "0.10.36"
diff --git a/examples/admission_controller.rs b/examples/admission_controller.rs
index 801c64028..6aac09a67 100644
--- a/examples/admission_controller.rs
+++ b/examples/admission_controller.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use jsonptr::Pointer;
+use jsonptr::PointerBuf;
 use kube::core::{
     admission::{AdmissionRequest, AdmissionResponse, AdmissionReview},
     DynamicObject, Resource, ResourceExt,
@@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ fn mutate(res: AdmissionResponse, obj: &DynamicObject) -> Result<AdmissionRespon
         // Ensure labels exist before adding a key to it
         if obj.meta().labels.is_none() {
             patches.push(json_patch::PatchOperation::Add(json_patch::AddOperation {
-                path: Pointer::new(["metadata", "labels"]),
+                path: PointerBuf::from_tokens(["metadata", "labels"]),
                 value: serde_json::json!({}),
             }));
         }
         // Add our label
         patches.push(json_patch::PatchOperation::Add(json_patch::AddOperation {
-            path: Pointer::new(["metadata", "labels", "admission"]),
+            path: PointerBuf::from_tokens(["metadata", "labels", "admission"]),
             value: serde_json::Value::String("modified-by-admission-controller".into()),
         }));
         Ok(res.with_patch(json_patch::Patch(patches))?)
diff --git a/kube-core/src/admission.rs b/kube-core/src/admission.rs
index afcff1587..ae5d495cb 100644
--- a/kube-core/src/admission.rs
+++ b/kube-core/src/admission.rs
@@ -223,12 +223,12 @@ pub enum Operation {
 ///     .into_review();
 ///
 /// use json_patch::{AddOperation, Patch, PatchOperation};
-/// use jsonptr::Pointer;
+/// use jsonptr::PointerBuf;
 ///
 /// // A response adding a label to the resource.
 /// let _: AdmissionReview<_> = AdmissionResponse::from(&req)
 ///     .with_patch(Patch(vec![PatchOperation::Add(AddOperation {
-///         path: Pointer::new(["metadata","labels","my-label"]),
+///         path: PointerBuf::from_tokens(["metadata","labels","my-label"]),
 ///         value: serde_json::Value::String("my-value".to_owned()),
 ///     })]))
 ///     .unwrap()
diff --git a/kube-runtime/src/finalizer.rs b/kube-runtime/src/finalizer.rs
index 32cbaa70d..70497e190 100644
--- a/kube-runtime/src/finalizer.rs
+++ b/kube-runtime/src/finalizer.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 use crate::controller::Action;
 use futures::{TryFuture, TryFutureExt};
 use json_patch::{AddOperation, PatchOperation, RemoveOperation, TestOperation};
-use jsonptr::Pointer;
+use jsonptr::PointerBuf;
 use kube_client::{
     api::{Patch, PatchParams},
     Api, Resource, ResourceExt,
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ where
                     // `Test` ensures that we fail instead of deleting someone else's finalizer
                     // (in which case a new `Cleanup` event will be sent)
                     PatchOperation::Test(TestOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str(finalizer_path.as_str())
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str(finalizer_path.as_str())
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                         value: finalizer_name.into(),
                     }),
                     PatchOperation::Remove(RemoveOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str(finalizer_path.as_str())
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str(finalizer_path.as_str())
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                     }),
                 ])),
@@ -164,12 +164,12 @@ where
             let patch = json_patch::Patch(if obj.finalizers().is_empty() {
                 vec![
                     PatchOperation::Test(TestOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                         value: serde_json::Value::Null,
                     }),
                     PatchOperation::Add(AddOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                         value: vec![finalizer_name].into(),
                     }),
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ where
                     // https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/issues/964#issuecomment-1197311254),
                     // so we need to fail and retry if anyone else has added the finalizer in the meantime
                     PatchOperation::Test(TestOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str("/metadata/finalizers")
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                         value: obj.finalizers().into(),
                     }),
                     PatchOperation::Add(AddOperation {
-                        path: Pointer::from_str("/metadata/finalizers/-")
+                        path: PointerBuf::from_str("/metadata/finalizers/-")
                             .map_err(|_err| Error::InvalidFinalizer)?,
                         value: finalizer_name.into(),
                     }),