diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f79e1f2896c1..ff231178a2b3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ rust-version = "1.72"
 version = "36.0.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
+# We turn off default-features for some dependencies here so the workspaces which inherit them can
+# selectively turn them on if needed, since we can override default-features = true (from false)
+# for the inherited dependency but cannot do the reverse (override from true to false).
+#
+# See for more detaiils: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/11329
 arrow = { version = "50.0.0", features = ["prettyprint"] }
 arrow-array = { version = "50.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["chrono-tz"] }
 arrow-buffer = { version = "50.0.0", default-features = false }
@@ -65,14 +70,14 @@ bytes = "1.4"
 chrono = { version = "0.4.34", default-features = false }
 ctor = "0.2.0"
 dashmap = "5.4.0"
-datafusion = { path = "datafusion/core", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-common = { path = "datafusion/common", version = "36.0.0" }
+datafusion = { path = "datafusion/core", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-common = { path = "datafusion/common", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
 datafusion-execution = { path = "datafusion/execution", version = "36.0.0" }
 datafusion-expr = { path = "datafusion/expr", version = "36.0.0" }
 datafusion-functions = { path = "datafusion/functions", version = "36.0.0" }
 datafusion-functions-array = { path = "datafusion/functions-array", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-optimizer = { path = "datafusion/optimizer", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { path = "datafusion/physical-expr", version = "36.0.0" }
+datafusion-optimizer = { path = "datafusion/optimizer", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { path = "datafusion/physical-expr", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
 datafusion-physical-plan = { path = "datafusion/physical-plan", version = "36.0.0" }
 datafusion-proto = { path = "datafusion/proto", version = "36.0.0" }
 datafusion-sql = { path = "datafusion/sql", version = "36.0.0" }
@@ -81,7 +86,7 @@ datafusion-substrait = { path = "datafusion/substrait", version = "36.0.0" }
 doc-comment = "0.3"
 env_logger = "0.11"
 futures = "0.3"
-half = "2.2.1"
+half = { version = "2.2.1", default-features = false }
 indexmap = "2.0.0"
 itertools = "0.12"
 log = "^0.4"
diff --git a/benchmarks/Cargo.toml b/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
index 90ff83bd53d7..a9fbab1ce41f 100644
--- a/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
+++ b/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 [package]
 name = "datafusion-benchmarks"
 description = "DataFusion Benchmarks"
-version = "36.0.0"
+version = { workspace = true }
 edition = { workspace = true }
-authors = ["Apache Arrow <dev@arrow.apache.org>"]
-homepage = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion"
-repository = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion"
-license = "Apache-2.0"
+authors = { workspace = true }
+homepage = { workspace = true }
+repository = { workspace = true }
+license = { workspace = true }
 rust-version = { workspace = true }
 
 [features]
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ snmalloc = ["snmalloc-rs"]
 
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
-datafusion = { path = "../datafusion/core", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-common = { path = "../datafusion/common", version = "36.0.0" }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ test-utils = { path = "../test-utils/", version = "0.1.0" }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "parking_lot"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-datafusion-proto = { path = "../datafusion/proto", version = "36.0.0" }
+datafusion-proto = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion-examples/Cargo.toml b/datafusion-examples/Cargo.toml
index ff18ce6d47dc..ad2a49fb352e 100644
--- a/datafusion-examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion-examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
 bytes = { workspace = true }
 dashmap = { workspace = true }
-datafusion = { path = "../datafusion/core", features = ["avro"] }
-datafusion-common = { path = "../datafusion/common" }
-datafusion-expr = { path = "../datafusion/expr" }
-datafusion-optimizer = { path = "../datafusion/optimizer" }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-sql = { path = "../datafusion/sql" }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true, features = ["avro"] }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-optimizer = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-sql = { workspace = true }
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/common/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/common/Cargo.toml
index 7b1a1586ba62..167307f37108 100644
--- a/datafusion/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ arrow-array = { workspace = true }
 arrow-buffer = { workspace = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-half = { version = "2.1", default-features = false }
+half = { workspace = true }
 libc = "0.2.140"
 num_cpus = { workspace = true }
 object_store = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ sqlparser = { workspace = true }
 instant = { version = "0.1", features = ["wasm-bindgen"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-rand = "0.8.4"
+rand = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/core/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/core/Cargo.toml
index 096c281c6ae9..019b4e58728c 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -86,19 +86,19 @@ bytes = { workspace = true }
 bzip2 = { version = "0.4.3", optional = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
 dashmap = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { path = "../common", version = "36.0.0", features = ["object_store"], default-features = false }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, features = ["object_store"] }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-functions = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-functions-array = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-datafusion-optimizer = { path = "../optimizer", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { path = "../physical-expr", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-optimizer = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-physical-plan = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-sql = { workspace = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1.0.24", optional = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 glob = "0.3.0"
-half = { version = "2.1", default-features = false }
+half = { workspace = true }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
 indexmap = { workspace = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ csv = "1.1.6"
 ctor = { workspace = true }
 doc-comment = { workspace = true }
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
-half = { workspace = true }
+half = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 postgres-protocol = "0.6.4"
 postgres-types = { version = "0.2.4", features = ["derive", "with-chrono-0_4"] }
-rand = { version = "0.8", features = ["small_rng"] }
+rand = { workspace = true, features = ["small_rng"] }
 rand_distr = "0.4.3"
 regex = "1.5.4"
 rstest = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/execution/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/execution/Cargo.toml
index 5c3360e681d1..84c878bf10dc 100644
--- a/datafusion/execution/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/execution/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
 dashmap = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
diff --git a/datafusion/expr/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/expr/Cargo.toml
index 4c9d00499e00..6e430943cf5c 100644
--- a/datafusion/expr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/expr/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ ahash = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = [
 ] }
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 arrow-array = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 paste = "^1.0"
 sqlparser = { workspace = true }
 strum = { version = "0.26.1", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/datafusion/functions-array/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/functions-array/Cargo.toml
index 9cf769bf294e..70d676c6d270 100644
--- a/datafusion/functions-array/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/functions-array/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
-log = "0.4.20"
+log = { workspace = true }
 paste = "1.0.14"
diff --git a/datafusion/functions/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/functions/Cargo.toml
index 89b7de9ee11a..c7edb52fc73e 100644
--- a/datafusion/functions/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/functions/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 base64 = { version = "0.21", optional = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
 hex = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
-log = "0.4.20"
+log = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/optimizer/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/optimizer/Cargo.toml
index 7235dddc8dd4..861715b351a6 100644
--- a/datafusion/optimizer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/optimizer/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ unicode_expressions = ["datafusion-physical-expr/unicode_expressions"]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { path = "../physical-expr", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
@@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ regex-syntax = "0.8.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 ctor = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-sql = { path = "../sql", version = "36.0.0" }
-env_logger = "0.11.0"
+datafusion-sql = { workspace = true }
+env_logger = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/physical-expr/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/physical-expr/Cargo.toml
index a46ad42f67c3..d48361ed15a9 100644
--- a/datafusion/physical-expr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/physical-expr/Cargo.toml
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ base64 = { version = "0.21", optional = true }
 blake2 = { version = "^0.10.2", optional = true }
 blake3 = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
-half = { version = "2.1", default-features = false }
+half = { workspace = true }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
 hex = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 indexmap = { workspace = true }
-itertools = { version = "0.12", features = ["use_std"] }
+itertools = { workspace = true, features = ["use_std"] }
 log = { workspace = true }
 md-5 = { version = "^0.10.0", optional = true }
 paste = "^1.0"
diff --git a/datafusion/physical-plan/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/physical-plan/Cargo.toml
index 59c7a9671a91..b4621109d2b1 100644
--- a/datafusion/physical-plan/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/physical-plan/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,15 +42,15 @@ arrow-buffer = { workspace = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
-half = { version = "2.1", default-features = false }
+half = { workspace = true }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
 indexmap = { workspace = true }
-itertools = { version = "0.12", features = ["use_std"] }
+itertools = { workspace = true, features = ["use_std"] }
 log = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 parking_lot = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
index 59a9129c6d7a..f5297aefcd1c 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ parquet = ["datafusion/parquet", "datafusion-common/parquet"]
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-datafusion = { path = "../core", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
 object_store = { workspace = true }
 pbjson = { version = "0.6.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/proto/gen/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/proto/gen/Cargo.toml
index c80bd50af287..0feece4218d9 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/gen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/proto/gen/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ description = "Code generation for proto"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = { workspace = true }
 rust-version = "1.72"
-authors = ["Apache Arrow <dev@arrow.apache.org>"]
-homepage = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion"
-repository = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion"
-license = "Apache-2.0"
+authors = { workspace = true }
+homepage = { workspace = true }
+repository = { workspace = true }
+license = { workspace = true }
 publish = false
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
diff --git a/datafusion/sql/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/sql/Cargo.toml
index b91a2ac1fbd7..fb300e2c8791 100644
--- a/datafusion/sql/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/sql/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ unicode_expressions = []
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
 sqlparser = { workspace = true }
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ sqlparser = { workspace = true }
 ctor = { workspace = true }
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
 paste = "^1.0"
-rstest = "0.18"
+rstest = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/sqllogictest/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/sqllogictest/Cargo.toml
index 7c54d6bf355b..12c4c96d5236 100644
--- a/datafusion/sqllogictest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/sqllogictest/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
 bigdecimal = { workspace = true }
-bytes = { version = "1.4.0", optional = true }
+bytes = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 clap = { version = "4.4.8", features = ["derive", "env"] }
-datafusion = { path = "../core", version = "36.0.0" }
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
-futures = { version = "0.3.28" }
-half = { workspace = true }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+futures = { workspace = true }
+half = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
 object_store = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
index 0acee202622f..21383c0d6d13 100644
--- a/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ rust-version = "1.72"
 [dependencies]
 async-recursion = "1.0"
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-datafusion = { workspace = true }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 object_store = { workspace = true }
 prost = "0.12"
diff --git a/datafusion/wasmtest/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/wasmtest/Cargo.toml
index ed5dcc21a22c..2f8521b19b74 100644
--- a/datafusion/wasmtest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/wasmtest/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["wasmbind"] }
 # all the `std::fmt` and `std::panicking` infrastructure, so isn't great for
 # code size when deploying.
 console_error_panic_hook = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
-datafusion = { path = "../core", default-features = false }
+datafusion = { workspace = true }
 
-datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-expr = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-optimizer = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-optimizer = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
 datafusion-physical-plan = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-sql = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/docs/Cargo.toml b/docs/Cargo.toml
index 39f4520ff7b2..d5e114075c95 100644
--- a/docs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/docs/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ authors = { workspace = true }
 rust-version = { workspace = true }
 
 [dependencies]
-datafusion = { path = "../datafusion/core", version = "36.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/test-utils/Cargo.toml b/test-utils/Cargo.toml
index de6310312b5a..1e86457f844a 100644
--- a/test-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/test-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ edition = { workspace = true }
 
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
-datafusion-common = { path = "../datafusion/common" }
-env_logger = "0.11.0"
+datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+env_logger = { workspace = true }
 rand = { workspace = true }