diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml
index 3b53331..54638d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
-        rust: [nightly, beta, stable, 1.59.0]
+        rust: [nightly, beta, stable, 1.49.0]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 407b3dd..490b4da 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [package]
 name = "async-global-executor"
-version = "2.1.0"
+version = "2.2.0"
 authors = ["Marc-Antoine Perennou <Marc-Antoine@Perennou.com>"]
 description =  "A global executor built on top of async-executor and async-io"
-edition = "2021"
+edition = "2018"
 license = "Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/Keruspe/async-global-executor"
 homepage = "https://github.com/Keruspe/async-global-executor"
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/async-global-executor"
 keywords = ["async", "await", "future", "executor"]
 categories = ["asynchronous", "concurrency"]
 readme = "README.md"
-rust-version = "1.59"
 
 [features]
 default = ["async-io"]
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ async-executor = "^1.4"
 async-lock = "^2.5"
 blocking = "^1.0"
 futures-lite = "^1.0"
+num_cpus = "^1.13"
 once_cell = "^1.4"
 
 [dependencies.async-io]
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 45048ab..e1d0b9e 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ impl GlobalExecutorConfig {
             .ok()
             .and_then(|threads| threads.parse().ok())
             .or(self.min_threads)
-            .unwrap_or_else(|| std::thread::available_parallelism().map_or(1, usize::from))
+            .unwrap_or_else(num_cpus::get)
             .max(1);
         let max_threads = self.max_threads.unwrap_or(min_threads * 4).max(min_threads);
         Config {