diff --git a/cabal.project b/cabal.project
index 746a09c590..616f991472 100644
--- a/cabal.project
+++ b/cabal.project
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ constraints: zip +disable-bzip2 +disable-zstd
 source-repository-package
     type: git
     location: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git
-    tag: 8bc4d3601250d9f79dc7e80ead319ec2b6d4a95a
+    tag: 1aea2a420b8b592730bed9d2bcba5025b81af018
 
 source-repository-package
     type: git
diff --git a/scripts/ci/test-watchdog.sh b/scripts/ci/test-watchdog.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..524763a548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/ci/test-watchdog.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+minutes=$1
+sleep $((minutes * 60))
+pid=$(pgrep -x simplex-chat-test | head -1)
+if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+children=$(pgrep -P "$pid")
+pids="$pid $children"
+for child in $children; do
+  pids="$pids $(pgrep -P "$child")"
+done
+
+echo "::group::simplex-chat-test is still running after $minutes minutes"
+for p in $pids; do
+  ps -o pid,ppid,stat,etime,command -p "$p"
+done
+for p in $pids; do
+  echo "=== stacks of $p"
+  if [ "$(uname)" = Darwin ]; then
+    sample "$p" 3 -file /dev/stdout
+  else
+    for task in /proc/"$p"/task/*; do
+      echo "--- thread ${task##*/} $(cat "$task"/comm) $(cat "$task"/wchan)"
+      sudo cat "$task"/stack
+    done
+  fi
+done
+echo "::endgroup::"
+kill "$pid"