diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index afbdf69053c..361f7d17908 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "minspan",
  "parse_duration",
- "rand 0.8.5",
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "rmp-serde",
@@ -1795,19 +1794,20 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rmp"
-version = "0.8.10"
+version = "0.8.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4f55e5fa1446c4d5dd1f5daeed2a4fe193071771a2636274d0d7a3b082aa7ad6"
+checksum = "44519172358fd6d58656c86ab8e7fbc9e1490c3e8f14d35ed78ca0dd07403c9f"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "num-traits",
+ "paste",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rmp-serde"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f3eedffbfcc6a428f230c04baf8f59bd73c1781361e4286111fe900849aaddaf"
+checksum = "25786b0d276110195fa3d6f3f31299900cf71dfbd6c28450f3f58a0e7f7a347e"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "rmp",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 88aecea9951..694a432e152 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,13 +30,16 @@ atuin = { path = "/usr/bin/atuin" }
 members = ["./atuin-client", "./atuin-server", "./atuin-common"]
 
 [features]
+# TODO(conradludgate)
+# Currently, this keeps the same default built behaviour for v0.8
+# We should rethink this by the time we hit a new breaking change
 default = ["sync", "server"]
 sync = ["atuin-client/sync"]
-server = ["atuin-server"]
+server = ["atuin-server", "tracing-subscriber"]
 
 [dependencies]
 atuin-server = { path = "atuin-server", version = "0.8.1", optional = true }
-atuin-client = { path = "atuin-client", version = "0.8.1" }
+atuin-client = { path = "atuin-client", version = "0.8.1", default-features = false }
 atuin-common = { path = "atuin-common", version = "0.8.1" }
 
 log = "0.4"
@@ -63,7 +66,6 @@ clap = { version = "3.1.11", features = ["derive"] }
 clap_complete = "3.1.2"
 fs-err = "2.7"
 
-
 [dependencies.tracing-subscriber]
 version = "0.3"
 default-features = false
@@ -73,8 +75,4 @@ features = [
     "registry",
     "env-filter",
 ]
-
-[profile.release]
-lto = "fat"
-codegen-units = 1
-opt-level = 3
+optional = true
diff --git a/atuin-client/Cargo.toml b/atuin-client/Cargo.toml
index 1b3187b91a5..c3a567d8db1 100644
--- a/atuin-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/atuin-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,14 @@ repository = "https://github.com/ellie/atuin"
 
 [features]
 default = ["sync"]
-sync = ["urlencoding", "sodiumoxide", "reqwest"]
+sync = [
+  "urlencoding",
+  "sodiumoxide",
+  "reqwest",
+  "rust-crypto",
+  "rmp-serde",
+  "base64",
+]
 
 [dependencies]
 atuin-common = { path = "../atuin-common", version = "0.8.1" }
@@ -27,16 +34,12 @@ chrono-english = "0.1.4"
 config = "0.13"
 serde = { version = "1.0.126", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.75"
-rmp-serde = "1.0.0"
-base64 = "0.13.0"
 parse_duration = "2.1.1"
-rand = "0.8.4"
-rust-crypto = "^0.2"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 async-trait = "0.1.49"
 itertools = "0.10.3"
 shellexpand = "2"
 sqlx = { version = "0.5", features = [
+  "runtime-tokio-rustls",
   "uuid",
   "chrono",
   "sqlite",
@@ -45,9 +48,16 @@ minspan = "0.1.1"
 regex = "1.5.4"
 fs-err = "2.7"
 
+# sync
 urlencoding = { version = "2.1.0", optional = true }
 sodiumoxide = { version = "0.2.6", optional = true }
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = [
   "json",
   "rustls-tls",
 ], default-features = false, optional = true }
+rust-crypto = { version = "^0.2", optional = true }
+rmp-serde = { version = "1.0.0", optional = true }
+base64 = { version = "0.13.0", optional = true }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/atuin-client/src/encryption.rs b/atuin-client/src/encryption.rs
index 4746c23ed13..87f45fec847 100644
--- a/atuin-client/src/encryption.rs
+++ b/atuin-client/src/encryption.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 // to decrypt
 
 use fs_err as fs;
-use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
 use std::io::prelude::*;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ pub fn encode_key(key: secretbox::Key) -> Result<String> {
 
 pub fn decode_key(key: String) -> Result<secretbox::Key> {
     let buf = base64::decode(key).wrap_err("encryption key is not a valid base64 encoding")?;
-    let buf: secretbox::Key = rmp_serde::from_read_ref(&buf)
+    let buf: secretbox::Key = rmp_serde::from_slice(&buf)
         .wrap_err("encryption key is not a valid message pack encoding")?;
 
     Ok(buf)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pub fn decrypt(encrypted_history: &EncryptedHistory, key: &secretbox::Key) -> Re
     let plaintext = secretbox::open(&encrypted_history.ciphertext, &encrypted_history.nonce, key)
         .map_err(|_| eyre!("failed to open secretbox - invalid key?"))?;
 
-    let history = rmp_serde::from_read_ref(&plaintext)?;
+    let history = rmp_serde::from_slice(&plaintext)?;
 
     Ok(history)
 }