diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 796637a..a0b27c4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ base64 = "^0.12"
 url = { version = "^2.1", features = ["serde"] }
 snafu = "^0.6"
 bitflags = "^1.2"
-
+uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4"] }
 # runtime optional deps
 actix-web = { version = "4", optional = true }
 actix-http = { version = "3", optional = true }
@@ -52,14 +52,9 @@ poem-lib = { version = "=1.2.34", optional = true, package = "poem" }
 
 [target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies]
 hostname = "^0.3"
-uuid = { version = "^0.8", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", target_os = "unknown"))'.dependencies]
 web-sys = { version = "^0.3", features = ["Window", "Location"] }
-uuid = { version = "^0.8", features = ["v4", "wasm-bindgen"] }
-
-[target.'cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", target_os="wasi"))'.dependencies]
-uuid = { version = "^0.8", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 rstest = "0.6"
diff --git a/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/Cargo.toml b/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/Cargo.toml
index f924018..b35fb03 100644
--- a/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/Cargo.toml
+++ b/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 reqwest = "^0.11"
-uuid = "0.8"
+uuid = "1"
 cloudevents-sdk = { path = "../..", features = ["reqwest"] }
 url = { version = "^2.1" }
 web-sys = { version = "0.3.39", features = ["Window", "Location"] }
diff --git a/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/src/lib.rs b/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/src/lib.rs
index 5a96f48..2b1a31b 100644
--- a/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/src/lib.rs
+++ b/example-projects/reqwest-wasm-example/src/lib.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pub async fn run(
     data: String,
 ) -> Result<(), JsValue> {
     let event = EventBuilderV10::new()
-        .id(&Uuid::new_v4().to_hyphenated().to_string())
+        .id(&Uuid::new_v4().hyphenated().to_string())
         .ty(ty)
         .source("http://localhost/")
         .data(datacontenttype, data)