diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2883307..ef09dcc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ arrow-json = "53.0.0"
 async-stream = "0.3.5"
 async-trait = "0.1.81"
 datafusion = "42.0.0"
-# XXX use the release version on crates.io
-datafusion-federation = { path = "./datafusion-federation" }
+datafusion-federation = { path = "./datafusion-federation", version = "0.2.1" }
 datafusion-substrait = "42.0.0"
 futures = "0.3.30"
 tokio = { version = "1.39.3", features = ["full"] }