diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
index 26d7ef18aa99dca4842b53274da875c30106840b..0656a7c66a2c414f8bcfb0a8d1bda505324685b7 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ ktls = { version = "6", optional = true }
 env_logger = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["auto-color", "humantime"] }
 # this is needed for echo-component example
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["signal", "test-util"] }
-tokio-xmpp = { path = ".", features = ["insecure-tcp"]}
+tokio-xmpp = { path = ".", default-features = false, features = ["insecure-tcp"]}
 
 [features]
 default = ["starttls-rust", "rustls-native-certs", "tls-rust-aws_lc_rs"]