diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d7799a907..d2c3c2736 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ anyhow = { version = "1.0.42", features = ["backtrace"]}
 askama = "0.14.0"
 async-stream = "0.3.5"
 axum-extra = { version = "0.12.0", features = ["typed-header", "routing", "middleware"] }
-bincode = "2.0.1"
+bincode = "~2" # bincode is unmaintained, and 3.0 is just a breaking notification
 chrono = { version = "0.4.11", default-features = false, features = ["clock", "serde"] }
 derive_more = { version = "2.0.0", features = ["display", "deref", "from", "into", "from_str"] }
 futures-util = "0.3.5"