diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8a15cfc..f9fd335 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ flatpak:
               --env=APP_ID="org.gnome.PodcastsDevel" \
               --env=LOCALEDIR="./podcasts-gtk/po" \
               --env=VERSION="0.0.0" \
-              --env=RUSTFLAGS="--cfg rayon_unstable" \
               --env=CARGO_HOME="target/cargo-home" \
               --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target_test/" \
               app ${MANIFEST_PATH} \
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2fbe73b..0c3b1e1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1501,7 +1501,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "pretty_assertions 0.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rand 0.5.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rayon 1.0.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "rayon-futures 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rfc822_sanitizer 0.3.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rss 1.5.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "tempdir 0.3.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -1692,15 +1691,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "num_cpus 1.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rayon-futures"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-dependencies = [
- "futures 0.1.23 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "rayon-core 1.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.1.40"
@@ -2671,7 +2661,6 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 "checksum rand_core 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "edecf0f94da5551fc9b492093e30b041a891657db7940ee221f9d2f66e82eef2"
 "checksum rayon 1.0.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "df7a791f788cb4c516f0e091301a29c2b71ef680db5e644a7d68835c8ae6dbfa"
 "checksum rayon-core 1.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "b055d1e92aba6877574d8fe604a63c8b5df60f60e5982bf7ccbb1338ea527356"
-"checksum rayon-futures 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "ea70dae42033c388536c7e9bdca084a14d75659c12e25fc105e7552464a87c4a"
 "checksum redox_syscall 0.1.40 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c214e91d3ecf43e9a4e41e578973adeb14b474f2bee858742d127af75a0112b1"
 "checksum redox_termios 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7e891cfe48e9100a70a3b6eb652fef28920c117d366339687bd5576160db0f76"
 "checksum regex 0.2.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9329abc99e39129fcceabd24cf5d85b4671ef7c29c50e972bc5afe32438ec384"
diff --git a/podcasts-data/Cargo.toml b/podcasts-data/Cargo.toml
index 6437f89..845df5c 100644
--- a/podcasts-data/Cargo.toml
+++ b/podcasts-data/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ derive_builder = "0.5.1"
 lazy_static = "1.1.0"
 log = "0.4.4"
 rayon = "1.0.2"
-rayon-futures = "0.1.0"
 rfc822_sanitizer = "0.3.3"
 rss = "1.5.0"
 url = "1.7.1"
diff --git a/podcasts-data/src/lib.rs b/podcasts-data/src/lib.rs
index 45a7444..b0f4a48 100644
--- a/podcasts-data/src/lib.rs
+++ b/podcasts-data/src/lib.rs
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern crate hyper_tls;
 extern crate native_tls;
 extern crate num_cpus;
 extern crate rayon;
-extern crate rayon_futures;
 extern crate rfc822_sanitizer;
 extern crate rss;
 extern crate tokio_core;
diff --git a/podcasts-data/src/pipeline.rs b/podcasts-data/src/pipeline.rs
index 555748c..98e224e 100644
--- a/podcasts-data/src/pipeline.rs
+++ b/podcasts-data/src/pipeline.rs
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ use hyper_tls::HttpsConnector;
 use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
 
 use num_cpus;
-use rayon;
-use rayon_futures::ScopeFutureExt;
 
 use errors::DataError;
 use Source;
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ where
 {
     sources
         .and_then(clone!(client => move |s| s.into_feed(client.clone())))
-        .and_then(|feed| rayon::scope(|s| s.spawn_future(feed.index())))
+        .and_then(|feed| feed.index())
         // the stream will stop at the first error so
         // we ensure that everything will succeded regardless.
         .map_err(|err| error!("Error: {}", err))
diff --git a/scripts/cargo.sh b/scripts/cargo.sh
index 14cebbc..023001c 100755
--- a/scripts/cargo.sh
+++ b/scripts/cargo.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 export CARGO_HOME=$1/target/cargo-home
-export RUSTFLAGS="--cfg rayon_unstable"
 export LOCALEDIR="$3"
 export APP_ID="$4"
 export VERSION="$5"
diff --git a/scripts/test.sh b/scripts/test.sh
index a258a2f..72326ee 100755
--- a/scripts/test.sh
+++ b/scripts/test.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" \
     --env=APP_ID="org.gnome.PodcastsDevel" \
     --env=LOCALEDIR="./podcasts-gtk/po" \
     --env=VERSION="0.0.0" \
-    --env=RUSTFLAGS="--cfg rayon_unstable" \
     --env=CARGO_HOME="target/cargo-home" \
     --env=CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target_test/" \
     app ${MANIFEST_PATH} \