diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 4e5e8c37..44337872 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ version = "0.10.6"
 [deps]
 Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"
 CellularAutomata = "878138dc-5b27-11ea-1a71-cb95d38d6b29"
+Compat = "34da2185-b29b-5c13-b0c7-acf172513d20"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 NNlib = "872c559c-99b0-510c-b3b7-b6c96a88d5cd"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ RCMLJLinearModelsExt = "MLJLinearModels"
 Adapt = "4.1.1"
 Aqua = "0.8"
 CellularAutomata = "0.0.2"
+Compat = "4.16.0"
 DifferentialEquations = "7.15.0"
 LIBSVM = "0.8"
 LinearAlgebra = "1.10"
@@ -50,5 +52,4 @@ Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Aqua", "Test", "SafeTestsets", "Random", "DifferentialEquations",
-    "MLJLinearModels", "LIBSVM", "Statistics"]
+test = ["Aqua", "Test", "SafeTestsets", "Random", "DifferentialEquations", "MLJLinearModels", "LIBSVM", "Statistics"]
diff --git a/src/ReservoirComputing.jl b/src/ReservoirComputing.jl
index 8cf16ea7..447ce8fe 100644
--- a/src/ReservoirComputing.jl
+++ b/src/ReservoirComputing.jl
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ module ReservoirComputing
 
 using Adapt: adapt
 using CellularAutomata: CellularAutomaton
+using Compat: @compat
 using LinearAlgebra: eigvals, mul!, I
 using NNlib: fast_act, sigmoid
 using Random: Random, AbstractRNG
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ using WeightInitializers: DeviceAgnostic, PartialFunction, Utils
 
 abstract type AbstractReservoirComputer end
 
+@compat(public, (create_states))
+
 #general
 include("states.jl")
 include("predict.jl")
@@ -31,12 +34,6 @@ include("esn/esn_predict.jl")
 include("reca/reca.jl")
 include("reca/reca_input_encodings.jl")
 
-# Julia < 1.9 support 
-if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-    include("../ext/RCMLJLinearModelsExt.jl")
-    include("../ext/RCLIBSVMExt.jl")
-end
-
 export NLADefault, NLAT1, NLAT2, NLAT3
 export StandardStates, ExtendedStates, PaddedStates, PaddedExtendedStates
 export StandardRidge