diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 520773d..29d45de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ jobs:
           args: --release --out dist --interpreter 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
           manylinux: ${{ matrix.manylinux }}
           before-script-linux: |
-            # Ensure OpenSSL dev headers are available for native-tls
+            # Ensure Perl is available for vendored OpenSSL build (openssl-src)
             if command -v yum &> /dev/null; then
-              yum install -y openssl-devel perl-IPC-Cmd
+              yum install -y perl-IPC-Cmd perl-core
             elif command -v apk &> /dev/null; then
-              apk add --no-cache openssl-dev perl
+              apk add --no-cache perl make
             fi
 
       - name: Upload wheels
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6ea7501..9d78662 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "googer"
-version = "0.2.3"
+version = "0.2.4"
 dependencies = [
  "html-escape",
  "log",
@@ -887,6 +887,15 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7c87def4c32ab89d880effc9e097653c8da5d6ef28e6b539d313baaacfbafcbe"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-src"
+version = "300.5.5+3.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3f1787d533e03597a7934fd0a765f0d28e94ecc5fb7789f8053b1e699a56f709"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-sys"
 version = "0.9.112"
@@ -895,6 +904,7 @@ checksum = "57d55af3b3e226502be1526dfdba67ab0e9c96fc293004e79576b2b9edb0dbdb"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
  "libc",
+ "openssl-src",
  "pkg-config",
  "vcpkg",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4e4ff79..8dc4273 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "googer"
-version = "0.2.4"
+version = "0.2.5"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "A powerful, type-safe Google Search library for Python — powered by Rust."
 license = "Apache-2.0"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 pyo3 = { version = "0.23", features = ["extension-module"] }
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "socks", "cookies", "native-tls"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "socks", "cookies", "native-tls-vendored"] }
 scraper = "0.21"
 rand = "0.8"
 regex = "1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 13374c8..6389b56 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "googer"
-version = "0.2.4"
+version = "0.2.5"
 description = "A powerful, type-safe Google Search library for Python — powered by Rust."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"