diff --git a/arangodb/Cargo.toml b/arangodb/Cargo.toml
index 722c0099..69f55c9c 100644
--- a/arangodb/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arangodb/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,12 +17,11 @@ all-features = true
 default = ["rt_tokio_1"]
 rt_tokio_1 = ["deadpool/rt_tokio_1", "arangors/reqwest_async"]
 rt_async-std_1 = ["deadpool/rt_async-std_1", "arangors/surf_async"]
-serde = ["deadpool/serde", "serde_1"]
 
 [dependencies]
-deadpool = { path = "../", version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["managed"] }
+deadpool = { path = "../", version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["managed", "serde"] }
 arangors = { git = "https://github.com/fMeow/arangors", rev = "2c31587", default-features = false, features = ["rocksdb"] }
-serde_1 = { package = "serde", version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 url = "2.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/arangodb/src/config.rs b/arangodb/src/config.rs
index 916cae5b..e82df923 100644
--- a/arangodb/src/config.rs
+++ b/arangodb/src/config.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 use std::fmt;
 
 use deadpool::Runtime;
-#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
-use serde_1::Deserialize;
+use serde::Deserialize;
 use url::Url;
 
 use crate::{CreatePoolError, Pool, PoolConfig};
@@ -23,10 +22,9 @@ use crate::{CreatePoolError, Pool, PoolConfig};
 /// ARANGODB__POOL__TIMEOUTS__WAIT__NANOS=0
 /// ```
 /// ```rust
-/// # use serde_1 as serde;
+/// # use serde;
 /// #
 /// #[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
-/// # #[serde(crate = "serde_1")]
 /// struct Config {
 ///     arango: deadpool_arangodb::Config,
 /// }
@@ -39,9 +37,7 @@ use crate::{CreatePoolError, Pool, PoolConfig};
 ///     }
 /// }
 /// ```
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(serde_1::Deserialize))]
-#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", serde(crate = "serde_1"))]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Config {
     /// ArangoDB URL.
     ///
diff --git a/arangodb/src/lib.rs b/arangodb/src/lib.rs
index 3f425c62..43d41399 100644
--- a/arangodb/src/lib.rs
+++ b/arangodb/src/lib.rs
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@
 
 mod config;
 
-use std::{
-    convert::Infallible,
-    ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
-};
+use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
 
 use arangors::{uclient::ClientExt, ClientError, Connection as ArangoConnection};
 use deadpool::{async_trait, managed};
diff --git a/arangodb/tests/arangodb.rs b/arangodb/tests/arangodb.rs
index 026e0dac..a0ee045e 100644
--- a/arangodb/tests/arangodb.rs
+++ b/arangodb/tests/arangodb.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use serde_1::Deserialize;
+use serde::Deserialize;
 
 use deadpool_arangodb::Runtime;
 
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ fn default_dbname() -> String {
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
-#[serde(crate = "serde_1")]
 struct Config {
     #[serde(default)]
     arango: deadpool_arangodb::Config,