diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3c29366..b779140 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 syslog_rfc5424 = "0.10"
 thiserror = "2"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["io-util", "macros", "net", "sync", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "net", "sync", "time"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["codec"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }