diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dec87f7..b534061 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 [package]
 name = "ipinfo"
 description = "ipinfo: A Rust library for IPInfo"
-version = "3.0.1"
+version = "3.1.0"
 authors = [
-    "Amr Ali <amralicc@gmail.com>",
-    "Uman Shahzad <uman@mslm.io>",
-    "Umar Farooq <mail.umar.now@gmail.com>",
-    "Fayzan Ahmad <fayzanx@gmail.com>",
     "IPinfo Releases <releases@ipinfo.io>",
 ]
 edition = "2021"
@@ -22,16 +18,17 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "ipinfo/rust", branch = "master" }
 codecov = { repository = "ipinfo/rust", branch = "master", service = "github" }
 
 [dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"], default-features = false }
-lru = "0.12.1"
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json"] }
+lru = "0.12"
+# per https://serde.rs/no-std.html, "a dependency on serde_json always needs Serde built with std", which is why we do not set "default-features = false" on `serde`.
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
-ipnetwork = "0.20.0"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["time"] }
-lazy_static = "1.4"
+ipnetwork = "0.20"
+tokio = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["time"] }
+lazy_static = "1.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 
 [profile.release]
 overflow-checks = true
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7515a1d..6648ec0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ To use IPinfo, add the following to your `Cargo.toml` file.
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-ipinfo = "3.0.1"
+ipinfo = "3.1.0"
 ```
 
 ## Getting Started