diff --git a/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml b/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
index 1cd5ce697..630ef94ef 100644
--- a/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ thiserror = "1"
 # Android log integration — `log::info!()` ends up in `adb logcat -s strawcore`.
 log = "0.4"
 android_logger = { version = "0.14", default-features = false }
+# vc=56 — subscription RSS feed fan-out. reqwest dedupes against
+# strawcore-core's already-pulled reqwest; quick-xml is small (~200KB);
+# futures for buffer_unordered. rustls-tls avoids the NDK openssl headers
+# headache.
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls", "gzip"] }
+quick-xml = "0.36"
+futures = "0.3"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 uniffi = { version = "0.28", features = ["build"] }