diff --git a/rust/fetch/Cargo.toml b/rust/fetch/Cargo.toml
index b9e5a3b..dfb6af8 100644
--- a/rust/fetch/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/fetch/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "smooai-fetch"
-version = "2.1.2"
+version = "3.3.11"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "A resilient HTTP fetch client with retries, timeouts, rate limiting, and circuit breaking."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ categories = ["web-programming::http-client"]
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 thiserror = "2"