diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e08f055a..ba696fda 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
       contents: read
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [18.17, 20, 22]
+        node-version: [20, 22]
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
         pino-version: [^9.0.0]
     steps:
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 0368a660..528b2b0c 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 const { isColorSupported } = require('colorette')
 const pump = require('pump')
-const { Transform } = require('readable-stream')
+const { Transform } = require('stream')
 const abstractTransport = require('pino-abstract-transport')
 const colors = require('./lib/colors')
 const {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4f878716..2cfccafd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
     "on-exit-leak-free": "^2.1.0",
     "pino-abstract-transport": "^2.0.0",
     "pump": "^3.0.0",
-    "readable-stream": "^4.0.0",
     "secure-json-parse": "^2.4.0",
     "sonic-boom": "^4.0.1",
     "strip-json-comments": "^3.1.1"
diff --git a/test/basic.test.js b/test/basic.test.js
index 3437d1e4..e2a58304 100644
--- a/test/basic.test.js
+++ b/test/basic.test.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 process.env.TZ = 'UTC'
 
-const { Writable } = require('readable-stream')
+const { Writable } = require('stream')
 const os = require('os')
 const test = require('tap').test
 const pino = require('pino')
diff --git a/test/example/example.js b/test/example/example.js
index f16c181d..f9a7452e 100644
--- a/test/example/example.js
+++ b/test/example/example.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 const _prettyFactory = require('../../')
 const pino = require('pino')
-const { Writable } = require('readable-stream')
+const { Writable } = require('stream')
 
 function prettyFactory () {
   return _prettyFactory({