diff --git a/libafl/Cargo.toml b/libafl/Cargo.toml
index 9d0466b2d5..bfa8cd5a3c 100644
--- a/libafl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libafl/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ libafl_derive = { version = "*", optional = true, path = "../libafl_derive" }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] } # an easy way to debug print SerdeAnyMap
 compression = { version = "0.1.5" }
 num_enum = "0.5.1"
-spin = "0.9.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "android")'.dependencies]
 backtrace = { version = "0.3", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std", "libbacktrace"] } # for llmp_debug