diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0abbf1bd1..9c9c4a87f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ keywords = ["http", "actix-web", "tracing", "logging"]
 categories = ["asynchronous", "web-programming"]
 
 [features]
-default = ["opentelemetry_0_13", "emit_event_on_error"]
+default = ["opentelemetry_0_14", "emit_event_on_error"]
 opentelemetry_0_13 = ["opentelemetry_0_13_pkg", "tracing-opentelemetry_0_12_pkg"]
 opentelemetry_0_14 = ["opentelemetry_0_14_pkg", "tracing-opentelemetry_0_13_pkg"]
 emit_event_on_error = []
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ea780cc9d..441d6e5cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.7"
 
 `tracing-actix-web` exposes three feature flags:
 
-- `opentelemetry_0_13`: attach [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust)'s context to the root span using OTEL 0.13 (enabled by default).
-- `opentelemetry_0_14`: same as above but using OTEL 0.14.
+- `opentelemetry_0_13`: attach [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust)'s context to the root span using OTEL 0.13.
+- `opentelemetry_0_14`: same as above but using OTEL 0.14 (enabled by default).
 - `emit_event_on_error`: emit a [`tracing`] event when request processing fails with an error (enabled by default).
 
 `tracing-actix-web` will release `0.4.0`, going out of beta, as soon as `actix-web` releases a stable `4.0.0`.
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 15e552a38..715895d6c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 //!
 //! `tracing-actix-web` exposes three feature flags:
 //!
-//! - `opentelemetry_0_13`: attach [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust)'s context to the root span using OTEL 0.13 (enabled by default).
-//! - `opentelemetry_0_14`: same as above but using OTEL 0.14.
+//! - `opentelemetry_0_13`: attach [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust)'s context to the root span using OTEL 0.13;
+//! - `opentelemetry_0_14`: same as above but using OTEL 0.14 (enabled by default);
 //! - `emit_event_on_error`: emit a [`tracing`] event when request processing fails with an error (enabled by default).
 //!
 //! `tracing-actix-web` will release `0.4.0`, going out of beta, as soon as `actix-web` releases a stable `4.0.0`.