diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fdee576..d4a84ea 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2304,6 +2304,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "serde_json",
+ "simd-json",
  "tar",
  "tokio",
  "tower-lsp",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 64a7efe..589176a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 [package]
 name = "tremor-language-server"
-version = "0.8.1"
+version = "0.8.2"
 description = "Tremor Language Server (Trill)"
 authors = ["The Tremor Team"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [build-dependencies]
-bincode = "1.2.1"
+bincode = "1.2"
 glob = "0.3"
 home = "0.5"
 regex = "1.3"
@@ -25,10 +25,18 @@ reqwest = "0.10"
 # tremor deps
 tremor-script = "0.8.1"
 
+# use non-simd fallback with simd-json so that we can install tremor-language-server
+# without needing to configure cpu target for simd-json compilation
+# https://github.com/simd-lite/simd-json#cpu-target
+#
+# this is fine for language server use since we don't care as much for json
+# processing performance here (easy installation is more important for users)
+simd-json = { "version" = "0.3", "features" = ["allow-non-simd"] }
+
 [dependencies]
 
-bincode = "1.2.1"
-clap = "2.33.1"
+bincode = "1.2"
+clap = "2.33"
 
 halfbrown = "0.1"
 jsonrpc-core = "14.1"