diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 908d336..23c14f0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/AndersTrier/reed-solomon-simd"
 keywords = [ "erasure", "reed-solomon", "Leopard-RS" ]
 categories = [ "algorithms", "encoding" ]
 edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.80"
 
 include = [
     "/benches",