diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8fe0ddc95c99a98f9936cf66d8ab01f7e70c0a7e..a4b5af903484e9b376b16ecef8b51d525504b860 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
         - `IRIDL` including overview, see [IRIDL.ipynb](https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring/s2s-ai-challenge-template/-/blob/master/notebooks/data_access/IRIDL.ipynb)
     - SubX-Project models: `IRIDL` including overview, see [IRIDL.ipynb](https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring/s2s-ai-challenge-template/-/blob/master/notebooks/data_access/IRIDL.ipynb)
     - How to access password-protected S2S-Project output from IRIDL with xarray? see [IRIDL.ipynb](https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring/s2s-ai-challenge-template/-/blob/master/notebooks/data_access/IRIDL.ipynb)
-- fix `netcdf4` version to `1.5.4` for `opendap` to work lazily with `xarray` (!2, [Aaron Spring](https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring))
+- fix `netcdf4` version to `1.5.4` for `opendap` to work lazily with `xarray` (!2, !7, [Aaron Spring](https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring))
 
 
 ### 2021-05-31: `v0.2` *release*
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 8d5ba046c10503b88d338ebe1f1b1af6334c35ae..6e3ac7d425de3f4946d3dbe6536032b132210336 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dependencies:
   - nc-time-axis
   - pydap
   - h5netcdf
-  - netcdf4==1.5.3
+  - netcdf4
   - pip
   - pip:
     - climetlab >= 0.7.0