diff --git a/workspaces/Cargo.toml b/workspaces/Cargo.toml
index 1488380b..ae56b816 100644
--- a/workspaces/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspaces/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ async-trait = "0.1"
 base64 = "0.21"
 bs58 = "0.5"
 cargo_metadata = { version = "0.18", optional = true }
-cargo-near = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false }
+cargo-near = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false }
 chrono = "0.4.19"
 fs2 = "0.4"
 rand = "0.8.4"
diff --git a/workspaces/src/cargo/mod.rs b/workspaces/src/cargo/mod.rs
index 87945a93..75cb4f5e 100644
--- a/workspaces/src/cargo/mod.rs
+++ b/workspaces/src/cargo/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-use std::str::FromStr;
-
 use crate::error::ErrorKind;
 
 use cargo_near::commands::build_command::{build, BuildCommand};
@@ -25,10 +23,15 @@ pub async fn compile_project(project_path: &str) -> crate::Result<Vec<u8>> {
         no_abi: true,
         out_dir: None,
         manifest_path: Some(
-            cargo_near::types::utf8_path_buf::Utf8PathBufInner::from_str(
-                &project_path.join("Cargo.toml").to_string_lossy(),
+            cargo_near::types::utf8_path_buf::Utf8PathBuf::from_path_buf(
+                project_path.join("Cargo.toml"),
             )
-            .map_err(|e| ErrorKind::Io.custom(e))?,
+            .map_err(|error_path| {
+                ErrorKind::Io.custom(format!(
+                    "Unable to construct UTF-8 path from: {}",
+                    error_path.display()
+                ))
+            })?,
         ),
     };