diff --git a/cargo-shuttle/src/init.rs b/cargo-shuttle/src/init.rs
index 1ceb5f4ef3..ed86a2c941 100644
--- a/cargo-shuttle/src/init.rs
+++ b/cargo-shuttle/src/init.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ pub trait ShuttleInit {
 
 pub struct ShuttleInitActixWeb;
 
+impl ShuttleInitActixWeb {
+    fn get_zstd_dep(_: &str, _: bool, _: &Path, _: &Url) -> String {
+        // it does not compile in the case of the latest dependency
+        String::from("=2.0.1+zstd.1.5.2")
+    }
+}
+
 impl ShuttleInit for ShuttleInitActixWeb {
     fn set_cargo_dependencies(
         &self,
@@ -45,7 +52,7 @@ impl ShuttleInit for ShuttleInitActixWeb {
             manifest_path,
             url,
             false,
-            get_dependency_version_fn,
+            Self::get_zstd_dep,
         );
 
         set_inline_table_dependency_features(
@@ -974,7 +981,7 @@ mod shuttle_init_tests {
             [dependencies]
             shuttle-service = { version = "1.0", features = ["web-actix-web"] }
             actix-web = "1.0"
-            zstd-sys = "1.0"
+            zstd-sys = "=2.0.1+zstd.1.5.2"
         "#};
 
         assert_eq!(cargo_toml.to_string(), expected);
diff --git a/examples b/examples
index ef62af0ae9..625470f862 160000
--- a/examples
+++ b/examples
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ef62af0ae97d5bf8ce37ad663fdd3b1ace5826ed
+Subproject commit 625470f86286e899a8a0a518e28db49e956f0244
diff --git a/service/Cargo.toml b/service/Cargo.toml
index 66fc1363d1..e3d9c73b97 100644
--- a/service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/service/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ tracing = "0.1.36"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.15", features = ["env-filter"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.1.2", features = ["v4"] }
 warp = { version = "0.3.2", optional = true }
-zstd-sys = { version = "2.0.1+zstd.1.5.2", optional = true }
+zstd-sys = { version = "=2.0.1+zstd.1.5.2", optional = true }
 
 # Tide does not have tokio support. So make sure async-std is compatible with tokio
 # https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/791