diff --git a/kube-client/Cargo.toml b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
index ae7cbb71a..b82886aec 100644
--- a/kube-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["time", "signal", "sync"], optional = tr
 kube-core = { path = "../kube-core", version = "=2.0.0" }
 jsonpath-rust = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["io", "codec"], optional = true }
-hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["client", "http1"], optional = true }
-hyper-util = { workspace = true, features = ["client", "client-legacy", "http1", "tokio", "tracing"], optional = true }
-hyper-rustls = { workspace = true, features = ["http1", "logging", "native-tokio", "tls12"], optional = true }
+hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["client", "http1", "http2"], optional = true }
+hyper-util = { workspace = true, features = ["client", "client-legacy", "http1", "http2", "tokio", "tracing"], optional = true }
+hyper-rustls = { workspace = true, features = ["http1", "http2", "logging", "native-tokio", "tls12"], optional = true }
 tokio-tungstenite = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tower = { workspace = true, features = ["buffer", "filter", "util"], optional = true }
 tower-http = { workspace = true, features = ["auth", "map-response-body", "trace"], optional = true }
diff --git a/kube-client/src/client/config_ext.rs b/kube-client/src/client/config_ext.rs
index ccdb3f600..e81f7f2e8 100644
--- a/kube-client/src/client/config_ext.rs
+++ b/kube-client/src/client/config_ext.rs
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ impl ConfigExt for Config {
                     .map_err(Error::RustlsTls)?,
             ));
         }
-        Ok(builder.enable_http1().wrap_connector(connector))
+        Ok(builder.enable_http1().enable_http2().wrap_connector(connector))
     }
 
     #[cfg(feature = "openssl-tls")]