diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1b23cea..6a76cc7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ members = ['test-suite']
 travis-ci = { repository = "alexcrichton/toml-rs" }
 
 [dependencies]
-serde = "1.0"
+serde = "1.0.97"
 linked-hash-map = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]