diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2a4c4ea..446a890 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+# 0.2.1
+- Pin serde version (See https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538 for context)
+
 # 0.2
 - Add GeneticCode to modify the translation table based on the applied genetic code. This change impacts some public functions of the QC-check module.
 - Allow generic `Read + Seek` objects for FastaReader. This enables reading directly from S3 or other remote sources.
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 457a474..d3133df 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "atglib"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Jonas Marcello <jonas.marcello@esbme.com>"]
 description = "A library to handle transcripts for genomics and transcriptomics"
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ keywords = ["bioinformatics", "genomics", "transcriptomics", "transcript", "gene
 categories = ["science", "data-structures", "parser-implementations"]
 
 [dependencies]
-serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+# See https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538#issuecomment-1684517372 for why we pin serde
+serde = { version = "1.0.156, < 1.0.172", features = ["derive"] }
 log = "0.4"
 
 [features]