diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 00470f6..fed98ca 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ md5 = "0.8"
 pyo3 = { version = "0.25", features = ["extension-module"], optional = true }
 pyo3-log = { version = "0.12", optional = true }
 raptorq = "2.0"
-raptor-code = "1.0"
+raptor-code = "1.0.9"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.30", optional = true  }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { version = "0.30" , optional = true }
 rand = "0.9"
diff --git a/src/fec/raptor.rs b/src/fec/raptor.rs
index e0fcb07..060e5df 100644
--- a/src/fec/raptor.rs
+++ b/src/fec/raptor.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ impl RaptorEncoder {
 
 impl FecEncoder for RaptorEncoder {
     fn encode(&self, data: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<Box<dyn super::FecShard>>> {
-        let mut encoder = raptor_code::SourceBlockEncoder::new(data, self.nb_source_symbols);
+        let mut encoder = raptor_code::SourceBlockEncoder::new(data, self.nb_source_symbols)
+            .map_err(|_| FluteError::new("Fail to create Raptor codec"))?;
         let nb_source_symbols = encoder.nb_source_symbols() as usize;
         let n = nb_source_symbols + self.nb_parity_symbols;