diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.rst b/docs/source/changelog.rst
index 494c7b5a..b1cf5061 100644
--- a/docs/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/source/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+2021.08.1
+---------
+
+* don't retry 404s (#406)
+
 2021.07.0
 ---------
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0133d3c8..3a26b5bc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ google-auth>=1.2
 google-auth-oauthlib
 requests
 decorator
-fsspec==2021.07.0
+fsspec==2021.08.1
 aiohttp