diff --git a/vortex-serde/Cargo.toml b/vortex-serde/Cargo.toml
index b6a7d69ba6..917e56c705 100644
--- a/vortex-serde/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex-serde/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ vortex-scalar = { workspace = true, features = ["flatbuffers"] }
 vortex-schema = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-arrow = { workspace = true }
+arrow = { workspace = true, features = ["ipc"] }
 arrow-array = { workspace = true }
 arrow-ipc = { workspace = true, features = ["lz4"] }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }