While bitvec compiles with rust 1.56, it looks like crossbeam by way of the criterion dependency no longer supports it:
% rustup run 1.56.1 cargo test
error: package `crossbeam-epoch v0.9.18` cannot be built because it requires rustc 1.61 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.56.1
It appears the most recent version is 1.63.