diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 121fe3c..e2a5855 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Added by cargo
 /target
+Cargo.lock
 
 
 # MacOS specific files
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f3cebc..0000000
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a31b02a..ad4d7a2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,5 +13,8 @@ keywords = ["ini", "parser", "serde", "config", "serialization"]
 categories = ["config", "parser-implementations", "encoding"]
 
 [dependencies]
-serde = { version = "^1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_core = "^1.0"
 thiserror = "^2.0"
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+serde = { version = "^1.0", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/src/de.rs b/src/de.rs
index 7439935..1b54f69 100644
--- a/src/de.rs
+++ b/src/de.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::{Error, error::Result};
-use serde::{
+use serde_core::{
     Deserialize,
     de::{self, IntoDeserializer},
 };
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ impl<'de, 'a> de::Deserializer<'de> for &'a mut SectionDeserializer<'a> {
     }
 
     // Forward all other deserialize methods to deserialize_any
-    serde::forward_to_deserialize_any! {
+    serde_core::forward_to_deserialize_any! {
         bool i8 i16 i32 i64 u8 u16 u32 u64 f32 f64 char str string
         bytes byte_buf unit unit_struct newtype_struct seq tuple
         tuple_struct map enum identifier ignored_any
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 0243edc..17cd893 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use serde::{de, ser};
+use serde_core::{de, ser};
 use std::fmt;
 use thiserror::Error;
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 291b676..12d8c27 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ mod tests {
 
             assert_eq!(config.name, "My App");
             assert_eq!(config.port, 8080);
-            assert_eq!(config.enabled, true);
+            assert!(config.enabled);
             assert_eq!(config.description, Some("A test application".to_string()));
             assert_eq!(config.database.host, "localhost");
             assert_eq!(config.database.port, 5432);
diff --git a/src/ser.rs b/src/ser.rs
index cf58320..5eaf558 100644
--- a/src/ser.rs
+++ b/src/ser.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::{Error, error::Result};
-use serde::{Serialize, ser};
+use serde_core::{Serialize, ser};
 
 pub struct Serializer {
     output: String,