diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b75438b2fa..a77450d55e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ categories = ["cryptography::cryptocurrencies"]
 equihash = { version = "0.2", path = "components/equihash" }
 zcash_address = { version = "0.3", path = "components/zcash_address" }
 zcash_client_backend = { version = "0.10", path = "zcash_client_backend" }
+zcash_client_sqlite = { version = "0.8.1", path = "zcash_client_sqlite" }
 zcash_encoding = { version = "0.2", path = "components/zcash_encoding" }
 zcash_keys = { version = "0.0", path = "zcash_keys" }
 zcash_note_encryption = "0.4"
diff --git a/zcash_client_backend/Cargo.toml b/zcash_client_backend/Cargo.toml
index ed15c05a68..12746fea4b 100644
--- a/zcash_client_backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zcash_client_backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ zcash_address = { workspace = true, features = ["test-dependencies"] }
 time = ">=0.3.22, <0.3.24" # time 0.3.24 has MSRV 1.67
 
 [features]
+default = [ "sync", "unstable" ]
+
 ## Enables the `tonic` gRPC client bindings for connecting to a `lightwalletd` server.
 lightwalletd-tonic = ["dep:tonic"]