diff --git a/lib/types/Cargo.toml b/lib/types/Cargo.toml
index 8ec4f3644fc..62d8cea7f33 100644
--- a/lib/types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/types/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ serde_bytes = { version = "0.11", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0"
 more-asserts = "0.2"
 indexmap = { version = "1.6" }
-rkyv = { version = "0.7.40", features = ["indexmap", "validation"] }
+rkyv = { version = "0.7.40", features = ["indexmap", "validation", "strict"] }
 enum-iterator = "0.7.0"
 target-lexicon = { version = "0.12.2", default-features = false }
 enumset = "1.0"