diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 32363b994..72f920e39 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/lib/pq v1.10.9
 	github.com/lomik/og-rek v0.0.0-20170411191824-628eefeb8d80
 	github.com/lomik/zapwriter v0.0.0-20210624082824-c1161d1eb463
-	github.com/maruel/natural v1.1.1
+	github.com/maruel/natural v1.2.1
 	github.com/mjibson/go-dsp v0.0.0-20180508042940-11479a337f12
 	github.com/msaf1980/go-metrics v0.0.14
 	github.com/msaf1980/go-stringutils v0.1.6
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index d0445f0fa..fb196626d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ github.com/lomik/og-rek v0.0.0-20170411191824-628eefeb8d80 h1:KVyDGUXjVOdHQt24wI
 github.com/lomik/og-rek v0.0.0-20170411191824-628eefeb8d80/go.mod h1:T7SQVaLtK7mcQIEVzveZVJzsDQpAtzTs2YoezrIBdvI=
 github.com/lomik/zapwriter v0.0.0-20210624082824-c1161d1eb463 h1:SN/0TEkyYpp8tit79JPUnecebCGZsXiYYPxN8i3I6Rk=
 github.com/lomik/zapwriter v0.0.0-20210624082824-c1161d1eb463/go.mod h1:rWIJAUD2hPOAyOzc3jBShAhN4CAZeLAyzUA/n8tE8ak=
-github.com/maruel/natural v1.1.1 h1:Hja7XhhmvEFhcByqDoHz9QZbkWey+COd9xWfCfn1ioo=
-github.com/maruel/natural v1.1.1/go.mod h1:v+Rfd79xlw1AgVBjbO0BEQmptqb5HvL/k9GRHB7ZKEg=
+github.com/maruel/natural v1.2.1 h1:G/y4pwtTA07lbQsMefvsmEO0VN0NfqpxprxXDM4R/4o=
+github.com/maruel/natural v1.2.1/go.mod h1:v+Rfd79xlw1AgVBjbO0BEQmptqb5HvL/k9GRHB7ZKEg=
 github.com/mjibson/go-dsp v0.0.0-20180508042940-11479a337f12 h1:dd7vnTDfjtwCETZDrRe+GPYNLA1jBtbZeyfyE8eZCyk=
 github.com/mjibson/go-dsp v0.0.0-20180508042940-11479a337f12/go.mod h1:i/KKcxEWEO8Yyl11DYafRPKOPVYTrhxiTRigjtEEXZU=
 github.com/msaf1980/go-metrics v0.0.14 h1:gD0kCG5MDbon33Nkz49yW6kz3yu0DHzDN0SxjGTWlTA=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natsort.go b/vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natural.go
similarity index 83%
rename from vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natsort.go
rename to vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natural.go
index df3ee0cba..e568095ec 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natsort.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/maruel/natural/natural.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ package natural
 
 import (
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 )
 
 // Less does a 'natural' comparison on the two strings.
@@ -20,13 +21,22 @@ import (
 //
 // This function does no memory allocation.
 func Less(a, b string) bool {
+	return Compare(a, b) < 0
+}
+
+// Compare does a 'natural' comparison on the two strings.
+//
+// It treats digits as decimal numbers, so that Compare("10", "2") return >0.
+//
+// This function does no memory allocation.
+func Compare(a, b string) int {
 	for {
 		if p := commonPrefix(a, b); p != 0 {
 			a = a[p:]
 			b = b[p:]
 		}
 		if len(a) == 0 {
-			return len(b) != 0
+			return -len(b)
 		}
 		if ia := digits(a); ia > 0 {
 			if ib := digits(b); ib > 0 {
@@ -35,7 +45,8 @@ func Less(a, b string) bool {
 				bn, berr := strconv.ParseUint(b[:ib], 10, 64)
 				if aerr == nil && berr == nil {
 					if an != bn {
-						return an < bn
+						// #nosec G40
+						return int(an - bn)
 					}
 					// Semantically the same digits, e.g. "00" == "0", "01" == "1". In
 					// this case, only continue processing if there's trailing data on
@@ -48,12 +59,14 @@ func Less(a, b string) bool {
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		return a < b
+		return strings.Compare(a, b)
 	}
 }
 
 // StringSlice attaches the methods of Interface to []string, sorting in
 // increasing order using natural order.
+//
+// It is now obsolete, use slices.Sort() along with natural.Compare instead.
 type StringSlice []string
 
 func (p StringSlice) Len() int           { return len(p) }
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index aa6f0ffa0..f627a08de 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ github.com/lomik/og-rek
 # github.com/lomik/zapwriter v0.0.0-20210624082824-c1161d1eb463
 ## explicit; go 1.16
 github.com/lomik/zapwriter
-# github.com/maruel/natural v1.1.1
+# github.com/maruel/natural v1.2.1
 ## explicit; go 1.21
 github.com/maruel/natural
 # github.com/mjibson/go-dsp v0.0.0-20180508042940-11479a337f12