diff --git a/xtask/Cargo.toml b/xtask/Cargo.toml
index 9829d8e4..0b774e40 100644
--- a/xtask/Cargo.toml
+++ b/xtask/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ default = ["dep:semver", "dep:toml_edit"]
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.1.8", features = ["derive"] }
 html5gum = "0.5.2"
-isahc = { version = "1.7.0", features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.4", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
 semver = { version = "1.0.6", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/xtask/src/cargo.rs b/xtask/src/cargo.rs
index b10440e1..91cba862 100644
--- a/xtask/src/cargo.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/cargo.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
-use isahc::{HttpClient, ReadResponseExt};
+use reqwest::blocking::Client;
 use semver::Version;
 use serde::{de::IgnoredAny, Deserialize};
 use toml_edit::{value, Document};
@@ -153,15 +153,15 @@ impl Package {
     }
 
     /// Check if the current version of the crate is published on crates.io.
-    pub fn is_published(&self, client: &HttpClient) -> Result<bool> {
+    pub fn is_published(&self, client: &Client) -> Result<bool> {
         let response: CratesIoCrate =
-            client.get(format!("{CRATESIO_API}/{}/{}", self.name, self.version))?.json()?;
+            client.get(format!("{CRATESIO_API}/{}/{}", self.name, self.version)).send()?.json()?;
 
         Ok(response.version.is_some())
     }
 
     /// Publish this package on crates.io.
-    pub fn publish(&self, client: &HttpClient, dry_run: bool) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn publish(&self, client: &Client, dry_run: bool) -> Result<()> {
         println!("Publishing {} {} on crates.io…", self.name, self.version);
         let _dir = pushd(self.manifest_path.parent().unwrap())?;
 
diff --git a/xtask/src/ci/spec_links.rs b/xtask/src/ci/spec_links.rs
index 1d5bb499..91b86a83 100644
--- a/xtask/src/ci/spec_links.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/ci/spec_links.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use html5gum::{Token, Tokenizer};
-use isahc::ReadResponseExt;
 
 use crate::Result;
 
@@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ fn check_targets(links: &[SpecLink]) -> Result<()> {
 ///
 /// Returns an error if the URL points to an invalid HTML page.
 fn get_page_ids(url: &str) -> Result<HashMap<String, HasDuplicates>> {
-    let mut page = isahc::get(url)?;
+    let page = reqwest::blocking::get(url)?;
 
     let html = page.text()?;
     let mut ids = HashMap::new();
diff --git a/xtask/src/release.rs b/xtask/src/release.rs
index 4c523103..066e26f1 100644
--- a/xtask/src/release.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/release.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 use std::io::{stdin, stdout, BufRead, Write};
 
 use clap::Args;
-use isahc::{
-    auth::{Authentication, Credentials},
-    config::Configurable,
-    http::StatusCode,
-    HttpClient, ReadResponseExt, Request,
-};
+use reqwest::{blocking::Client, StatusCode};
 use semver::Version;
 use serde_json::json;
 
@@ -40,7 +35,7 @@ pub struct ReleaseTask {
     version: Version,
 
     /// The http client to use for requests.
-    http_client: HttpClient,
+    http_client: Client,
 
     /// The github configuration required to publish a release.
     config: GithubConfig,
@@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ impl ReleaseTask {
 
         let config = crate::Config::load()?.github;
 
-        let http_client = HttpClient::new()?;
+        let http_client = Client::new();
 
         Ok(Self { metadata, package, version, http_client, config, dry_run })
     }
@@ -163,7 +158,7 @@ impl ReleaseTask {
         }
 
         println!("Creating release on GitHub…");
-        let request_body = &json!({
+        let request_body = json!({
             "tag_name": tag,
             "name": title,
             "body": changes.trim_softbreaks(),
@@ -260,21 +255,23 @@ impl ReleaseTask {
 
     /// Check if the tag for the current version of the crate has been pushed on GitHub.
     fn is_released(&self) -> Result<bool> {
-        let response =
-            self.http_client.get(format!("{GITHUB_API_RUMA}/releases/tags/{}", self.tag_name()))?;
+        let response = self
+            .http_client
+            .get(format!("{GITHUB_API_RUMA}/releases/tags/{}", self.tag_name()))
+            .send()?;
 
         Ok(response.status() == StatusCode::OK)
     }
 
     /// Create the release on GitHub with the given `config` and `credentials`.
-    fn release(&self, body: &str) -> Result<()> {
-        let request = Request::post(format!("{GITHUB_API_RUMA}/releases"))
-            .authentication(Authentication::basic())
-            .credentials(Credentials::new(&self.config.user, &self.config.token))
+    fn release(&self, body: String) -> Result<()> {
+        let response = self
+            .http_client
+            .post(format!("{GITHUB_API_RUMA}/releases"))
+            .basic_auth(&self.config.user, Some(&self.config.token))
             .header("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3+json")
-            .body(body)?;
-
-        let mut response = self.http_client.send(request)?;
+            .body(body)
+            .send()?;
 
         if response.status() == StatusCode::CREATED {
             Ok(())