diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 91ef719e49f1..9ee2f33d512f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 
 ### Breaking
 
+- [#6680](https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pull/6680) Made the `tokio-console` feature optional and disabled by default. Users relying on this feature must now explicitly compile Forest with `--features tokio-console` to enable it.
+
 ### Added
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 41e9578a22f6..ce7c1707df5f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ lto = "fat"
 
 # These should be refactored (probably removed) in #2984
 [features]
-default = ["jemalloc", "tokio-console", "tracing-loki", "tracing-chrome", "sqlite"]
+default = ["jemalloc", "tracing-loki", "tracing-chrome", "sqlite"]
 test = []                                                                           # default feature set for unit tests
 slim = ["rustalloc"]
 cargo-test = []                                                                     # group of tests that is recommended to run with `cargo test` instead of `nextest`