diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 91de132c..e9dc01cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ default = ["conduit_bin", "backend_rocksdb", "systemd", "zstd_compression"]
 #backend_sled = ["sled"]
 backend_persy = ["persy", "parking_lot"]
 backend_sqlite = ["sqlite"]
-backend_heed = ["heed", "crossbeam"]
+#backend_heed = ["heed", "crossbeam"]
 backend_rocksdb = ["rocksdb"]
 jemalloc = ["tikv-jemalloc-ctl", "tikv-jemallocator"]
 sqlite = ["rusqlite", "parking_lot", "tokio/signal"]