diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e2bda69..c59e32b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2173,7 +2173,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ratatui",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
- "socktop_connector",
+ "socktop_connector 1.50.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "sysinfo",
  "tempfile",
  "tokio",
@@ -2234,6 +2234,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "web-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "socktop_connector"
+version = "1.50.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "61ea6a5733e71da6d5c94d23265b85f7041305bca51e6c33e7104464444047bc"
+dependencies = [
+ "flate2",
+ "futures-util",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-build",
+ "protoc-bin-vendored",
+ "rustls 0.23.31",
+ "rustls-pemfile",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "thiserror 2.0.12",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "stable_deref_trait"
 version = "1.2.0"
diff --git a/socktop/Cargo.toml b/socktop/Cargo.toml
index 6be9c9c..b9df459 100644
--- a/socktop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/socktop/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 
 [dependencies]
 # socktop connector for agent communication
-socktop_connector = { path = "../socktop_connector" }
+socktop_connector = "1.50.0"
 
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 futures-util = { workspace = true }