diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 51f75819..4333f6d3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package.version = "0.10.0"
 beam-lib = { path = "./beam-lib", features = [ "strict-ids" ] }
 # Command Line Interface
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["env", "derive"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.13", default-features = false }
 
 [profile.release]
 #opt-level = "z"     # Optimize for size.
diff --git a/beam-lib/Cargo.toml b/beam-lib/Cargo.toml
index 922319dd..75b44cfd 100644
--- a/beam-lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/beam-lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"], default-features = false, optional = true }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"], default-features = false, optional = true }
 thiserror = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/shared/Cargo.toml b/shared/Cargo.toml
index a59fd95a..9e84ce61 100644
--- a/shared/Cargo.toml
+++ b/shared/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 axum = { version = "0.8", features = [] }
 bytes = "1.4"
 
-# HTTP client with proxy support
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["stream"] }
+# This includes all default features of reqwest but uses native-tls aka openssl as we depend on it for encryption anyways
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["stream", "native-tls", "charset", "system-proxy", "http2"] }
 
 # Logging
 tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/tests/Cargo.toml b/tests/Cargo.toml
index abaa9860..b69830ba 100644
--- a/tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ serde_json = "1"
 anyhow = "1"
 rand = "0.8"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["stream"], default-features = false }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["stream"], default-features = false }
 futures = "0.3.28"
 async-sse = "5.1.0"