diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4317b87d0d642..b32da1f290a22 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3387,6 +3387,17 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4443176a9f2c162692bd3d352d745ef9413eec5782a80d8fd6f8a1ac692a07f7"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fancy-regex"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "531e46835a22af56d1e3b66f04844bed63158bc094a628bec1d321d9b4c44bf2"
+dependencies = [
+ "bit-set",
+ "regex-automata 0.4.4",
+ "regex-syntax 0.8.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fastrand"
 version = "1.9.0"
@@ -10915,8 +10926,9 @@ checksum = "6a02e4885ed3bc0f2de90ea6dd45ebcbb66dacffe03547fadbb0eeae2770887d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vrl"
-version = "0.18.0"
-source = "git+https://github.com/vectordotdev/vrl?rev=cfcef6626e9131fbce5f45e7d05a6d82bc9f7116#cfcef6626e9131fbce5f45e7d05a6d82bc9f7116"
+version = "0.19.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c22ec61cbd43e563df185521f9a2fb2f42f6ab96604a574c82f6564049fb431"
 dependencies = [
  "aes",
  "ansi_term",
@@ -10946,6 +10958,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "domain",
  "dyn-clone",
  "exitcode",
+ "fancy-regex",
  "flate2",
  "grok",
  "hex",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b173d4ede3bd4..70c8c6ed2d846 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ default-run = "vector"
 autobenches = false # our benchmarks are not runnable on their own either way
 # Minimum supported rust version
 # See docs/DEVELOPING.md for policy
-rust-version = "1.78"
+rust-version = "1.79"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "vector"
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ toml = { version = "0.8.19", default-features = false, features = ["display", "p
 tonic = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["transport", "codegen", "prost", "tls", "tls-roots", "gzip"] }
 tonic-build = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["transport", "prost"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.10.0", features = ["v4", "v7", "serde"] }
-vrl = { git = "https://github.com/vectordotdev/vrl", rev="cfcef6626e9131fbce5f45e7d05a6d82bc9f7116", features = ["arbitrary", "cli", "test", "test_framework"] }
+vrl = { version = "0.19.0", features = ["arbitrary", "cli", "test", "test_framework"] }
 
 [dependencies]
 pin-project.workspace = true
diff --git a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
index c15a7d3a023ce..8d227c4f53a5c 100644
--- a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
+++ b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ executor-trait,https://github.com/amqp-rs/executor-trait,Apache-2.0 OR MIT,Marc-
 exitcode,https://github.com/benwilber/exitcode,Apache-2.0,Ben Wilber <benwilber@gmail.com>
 fakedata_generator,https://github.com/kevingimbel/fakedata_generator,MIT,Kevin Gimbel <hallo@kevingimbel.com>
 fallible-iterator,https://github.com/sfackler/rust-fallible-iterator,MIT OR Apache-2.0,Steven Fackler <sfackler@gmail.com>
+fancy-regex,https://github.com/fancy-regex/fancy-regex,MIT,"Raph Levien <raph@google.com>, Robin Stocker <robin@nibor.org>"
 fastrand,https://github.com/smol-rs/fastrand,Apache-2.0 OR MIT,Stjepan Glavina <stjepang@gmail.com>
 ff,https://github.com/zkcrypto/ff,MIT OR Apache-2.0,"Sean Bowe <ewillbefull@gmail.com>, Jack Grigg <thestr4d@gmail.com>"
 fiat-crypto,https://github.com/mit-plv/fiat-crypto,MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR BSD-1-Clause,Fiat Crypto library authors <jgross@mit.edu>