diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6151473ab..93dc12075 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ snap = "1"
 atomicwrites = {version="0.2.2", optional=true}
 tempfile = "3.0"
 log = "0.4"
-serde = "1.0"
+serde = {version="1.0", features=["derive"]}
 serde_json = "1.0"
 num_cpus = "1.2"
 fs2={version="0.4", optional=true}