diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c1a404c246..1b3acfc8ec 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5606,7 +5606,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sixel-tokenizer",
  "sysinfo",
  "tempfile",
- "tokio",
  "typetag",
  "unicode-width",
  "url",
diff --git a/zellij-server/Cargo.toml b/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
index a5f2104ee5..455480a57f 100644
--- a/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ wasmtime-wasi = "20.0.2"
 cassowary = "0.3.0"
 zellij-utils = { path = "../zellij-utils/", version = "0.41.0" }
 log = "0.4.17"
-tokio = "1.37.0"
 typetag = "0.1.7"
 chrono = "0.4.19"
 close_fds = "0.3.2"