diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ab8884a2..929e9c530 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+### [0.29.1](https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption/compare/v0.29.0...v0.29.1) (2024-01-24)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* reduce tokio dep requirements ([5f1ab1a](https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption/commit/5f1ab1a3ccd6af6d190cdd3e1580ed0a874fe9a3))
+
 ## [0.29.0](https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption/compare/v0.28.6...v0.29.0) (2024-01-10)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 08b64bc9e..77cceae4c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ license = "GPL-3.0"
 name = "self_encryption"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption"
-version = "0.29.0"
+version = "0.29.1"
 
 [dependencies]
 aes = "~0.8.1"
@@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ xor_name = "5.0.0"
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "~0.3"
 docopt = "~0.9.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.34.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+
+  [dev-dependencies.tokio]
+  version = "1.34.0"
+  features = [ "rt-multi-thread", "macros" ]
 
 [[example]]
 bench = false