diff --git a/arrow/Cargo.toml b/arrow/Cargo.toml
index 03c76d0faf5f..8a080e54c946 100644
--- a/arrow/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arrow/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ name = "arrow"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["rc"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0" }
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }
 indexmap = "1.6"