diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6cdf533..2b2e716 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "flume",
  "hashbrown",
  "indexmap",
+ "log",
  "mimalloc",
  "mio",
  "native-tls",
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 932b5b2..1bfdfc3 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 ## aquatic_ws
 * ipv4 / ipv6 split state?
 * network
-  * panic/error in workers: exit program with non-zero exit code
   * send/recv buffer size config
   * limit ws message sizes?
   * is it even necessary to check if event is readable in poll, since that
     is all we're listening for?
+* panic/error in workers: print error, exit program with non-zero exit code
 * privdrop
 
 ## aquatic_udp
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
   Probably not really necessary. If it is an honest mistake, peer will just
   keep announcing and after a few minutes, the peer in the map will be cleaned
   out and everything will start working
-* log crate instead of println/eprintln?
 * stack-allocated vectors for announce request offers and scrape request info
   hashes?
 
diff --git a/aquatic_ws/Cargo.toml b/aquatic_ws/Cargo.toml
index 0a19ce9..de28bdc 100644
--- a/aquatic_ws/Cargo.toml
+++ b/aquatic_ws/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ either = "1"
 flume = "0.7"
 hashbrown = { version = "0.7", features = ["serde"] }
 indexmap = "1"
+log = "0.4"
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1", default-features = false }
 mio = { version = "0.7", features = ["tcp", "os-poll", "os-util"] }
 native-tls = "0.2"
diff --git a/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/connection.rs b/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/connection.rs
index 09860d9..c77533e 100644
--- a/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/connection.rs
+++ b/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/connection.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use std::io::{Read, Write};
 
 use either::Either;
 use hashbrown::HashMap;
+use log::info;
 use mio::Token;
 use mio::net::TcpStream;
 use native_tls::{TlsAcceptor, TlsStream, MidHandshakeTlsStream};
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ impl HandshakeMachine {
                 (Some(Either::Right(Self::TlsMidHandshake(handshake))), true)
             },
             Err(native_tls::HandshakeError::Failure(err)) => {
-                eprintln!("tls handshake error: {}", err);
+                info!("tls handshake error: {}", err);
 
                 (None, false)
             }
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ impl HandshakeMachine {
                 (Some(Either::Right(HandshakeMachine::WsMidHandshake(handshake))), true)
             },
             Err(HandshakeError::Failure(err)) => {
-                eprintln!("ws handshake error: {}", err);
+                info!("ws handshake error: {}", err);
 
                 (None, false)
             }
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ impl Connection {
 
                 // Required after ws.close()
                 if let Err(err) = ews.ws.write_pending(){
-                    eprintln!(
+                    info!(
                         "error writing pending messages after closing ws: {}",
                         err
                     )
diff --git a/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/mod.rs b/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/mod.rs
index ec003e5..e65116a 100644
--- a/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/mod.rs
+++ b/aquatic_ws/src/lib/network/mod.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 use std::io::ErrorKind;
 
 use hashbrown::HashMap;
+use log::info;
 use native_tls::TlsAcceptor;
-
 use mio::{Events, Poll, Interest, Token};
 use mio::net::TcpListener;
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ fn accept_new_streams(
                     break
                 }
 
-                eprint!("error while accepting streams: {}", err);
+                info!("error while accepting streams: {}", err);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ pub fn run_handshakes_and_read_messages(
                     break
                 },
                 Err(err) => {
-                    eprintln!("error reading messages: {}", err);
+                    info!("error reading messages: {}", err);
     
                     remove_connection_if_exists(connections, poll_token);
     
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ pub fn send_out_messages(
         
         if let Some(established_ws) = opt_established_ws {
             if established_ws.peer_addr != meta.peer_addr {
-                eprintln!("socket worker error: peer socket addrs didn't match");
+                info!("socket worker error: peer socket addrs didn't match");
 
                 continue;
             }
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ pub fn send_out_messages(
                     remove_connection_if_exists(connections, meta.poll_token);
                 },
                 Err(err) => {
-                    eprintln!("error writing ws message: {}", err);
+                    info!("error writing ws message: {}", err);
 
                     remove_connection_if_exists(
                         connections,