diff --git a/_benchmarks/go.mod b/_benchmarks/go.mod
index d6f349d..024e18a 100644
--- a/_benchmarks/go.mod
+++ b/_benchmarks/go.mod
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ go 1.27.0
 replace github.com/echocat/cli4g => ..
 
 require (
-	github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.16.1
+	github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.17.0
 	github.com/echocat/cli4g v0.0.0
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.2
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10
diff --git a/_benchmarks/go.sum b/_benchmarks/go.sum
index 69c6356..4ac451f 100644
--- a/_benchmarks/go.sum
+++ b/_benchmarks/go.sum
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github.com/alecthomas/assert/v2 v2.11.0 h1:2Q9r3ki8+JYXvGsDyBXwH3LcJ+WK5D0gc5E8vS6K3D0=
 github.com/alecthomas/assert/v2 v2.11.0/go.mod h1:Bze95FyfUr7x34QZrjL+XP+0qgp/zg8yS+TtBj1WA3k=
-github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.16.1 h1:ixhCt93XkJ98kGposQ54+bl0IK6XwqB40AsMynU7Z8E=
-github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.16.1/go.mod h1:wrlbXem1CWqUV5Vbmss5ISYhsVPkBb1Yo7YKJghju2I=
+github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.17.0 h1:f52BVWChYMDkMkCoqkEWRuFOk/K4B5LO7xIijeLJRdk=
+github.com/alecthomas/kong v1.17.0/go.mod h1:wrlbXem1CWqUV5Vbmss5ISYhsVPkBb1Yo7YKJghju2I=
 github.com/alecthomas/repr v0.5.2 h1:SU73FTI9D1P5UNtvseffFSGmdNci/O6RsqzeXJtP0Qs=
 github.com/alecthomas/repr v0.5.2/go.mod h1:Fr0507jx4eOXV7AlPV6AVZLYrLIuIeSOWtW57eE/O/4=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.6/go.mod h1:oOW0eioCTA6cOiMLiUPZOpcVxMig6NIQQ7OS05n1F4g=