diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6813226d7..d265c0644 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.130", features = ["derive"] }
 im-rc = "15.0.0"
 fxhash = "0.2.1"
 anyhow = "1.0.42"
-reqwest = "0.11.4"
+# reqwest = "0.11.4"
 serde_json = "1.0.68"
 simple_logger = "1.13.0"
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4c0354f18..bb7e60cd6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,12 +65,11 @@ Dioxus can be used to deliver webapps, desktop apps, static sites, liveview apps
 If you know React, then you already know Dioxus.
 
 ### Unique features:
-- Incredible inline documentation. Supports hover and guides for all HTML elements, listeners, and events.
-- Templates are "constified" at compile time. Nodes that don't change will won't be diffed.
-- Custom bump-allocator backing for all components. Nearly 0 allocations for steady-state components.
-- Starting a new app takes zero templates or special tools - get a new app running in just seconds.
-- Desktop apps running natively (no Electron!) in less than 10 lines of code.
 - The most ergonomic and powerful state management of any Rust UI toolkit.
+- Desktop apps running natively (no Electron!) in less than 10 lines of code.
+- Starting a new app takes zero templates or special tools - get a new app running in just seconds.
+- Incredible inline documentation. Supports hover and guides for all HTML elements, listeners, and events.
+- Custom bump-allocator backing for all components. Nearly 0 allocations for steady-state components.
 - Multithreaded asynchronous coroutine scheduler for powerful async code.
 - And more! Read the full release post here.
 
diff --git a/packages/core/Cargo.toml b/packages/core/Cargo.toml
index 82cc9396f..4d320ea7c 100644
--- a/packages/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ longest-increasing-subsequence = "0.1.0"
 # internall used
 log = { version = "0.4", features = ["release_max_level_off"] }
 
-futures-util = "0.3.15"
+futures-util = { version = "0.3.15", no_default_features = true }
 
 smallvec = "1.6.1"
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ simple_logger = "1.13.0"
 dioxus-core-macro = { path = "../core-macro", version = "0.1.2" }
 
 [features]
-default = ["serialize"]
+default = []
 serialize = ["serde", "serde_repr"]
 
 [[bench]]
diff --git a/packages/core/examples/tasks.rs b/packages/core/examples/tasks.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f328e4d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/examples/tasks.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fn main() {}
diff --git a/packages/core/src/util.rs b/packages/core/src/util.rs
index 63962d792..1ddd3a51c 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/util.rs
+++ b/packages/core/src/util.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ impl Future for YieldNow {
 ///
 /// `ScopeId` is a `usize` that is unique across the entire VirtualDOM - but not unique across time. If a component is
 /// unmounted, then the `ScopeId` will be reused for a new component.
-#[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Debug)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize))]
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Debug)]
 pub struct ScopeId(pub usize);
 
 /// An Element's unique identifier.