diff --git a/scylla-cql/Cargo.toml b/scylla-cql/Cargo.toml
index 705169a4d3..0f18bff343 100644
--- a/scylla-cql/Cargo.toml
+++ b/scylla-cql/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ num-bigint = "0.3"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
 lz4_flex = { version = "0.9.2" }
 async-trait = "0.1.57"
-serde = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "0.3"