diff --git a/timely/Cargo.toml b/timely/Cargo.toml
index 1d245fd4e..831239389 100644
--- a/timely/Cargo.toml
+++ b/timely/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ abomonation = "0.7.3"
 abomonation_derive = "0.5"
 timely_bytes = { path = "../bytes", version = "0.12" }
 timely_logging = { path = "../logging", version = "0.12" }
-timely_communication = { path = "../communication", version = "0.12" }
+timely_communication = { path = "../communication", version = "0.12", default-features = false }
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5.0"
 futures-util = "0.3"