diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 235be093ab..2ae705bcae 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5003,7 +5003,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zenoh-result",
  "zenoh-shm",
  "zenoh-sync",
- "zenoh-transport",
  "zenoh-util",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 63fe64d866..65274c4a75 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ zenoh-collections = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "commons/zenoh-collections",
 zenoh-macros = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "commons/zenoh-macros" }
 zenoh-plugin-trait = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "plugins/zenoh-plugin-trait", default-features = false }
 zenoh_backend_traits = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "plugins/zenoh-backend-traits" }
-zenoh-transport = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "io/zenoh-transport" }
+zenoh-transport = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "io/zenoh-transport", default-features = false }
 zenoh-link-tls = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "io/zenoh-links/zenoh-link-tls" }
 zenoh-link-tcp = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "io/zenoh-links/zenoh-link-tcp" }
 zenoh-link-unixsock_stream = { version = "0.10.0-rc", path = "io/zenoh-links/zenoh-link-unixsock_stream" }
diff --git a/io/zenoh-transport/Cargo.toml b/io/zenoh-transport/Cargo.toml
index 77f6b18db3..0921f4e1ee 100644
--- a/io/zenoh-transport/Cargo.toml
+++ b/io/zenoh-transport/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ transport_unixpipe = ["zenoh-link/transport_unixpipe"]
 stats = ["zenoh-protocol/stats"]
 test = []
 unstable = []
+default = ["test", "transport_multilink"]
 
 [dependencies]
 async-executor = { workspace = true }
@@ -78,5 +79,3 @@ zenoh-util = { workspace = true }
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
 panic-message = { workspace = true }
 zenoh-protocol = { workspace = true, features = ["test"] }
-zenoh-transport = { workspace = true, features = ["test", "transport_multilink"] }
-