diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.rst b/docs/source/changelog.rst
index ad825e9e..33dc21b9 100644
--- a/docs/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/source/changelog.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ Changelog
 Note: in some releases, there are no changes, because we always guarantee
 releasing in step with fsspec.
 
+2026.3.0
+--------
+
+**The default inplementation is now ExtendedGcsFileSystem**. This still
+defers to GCSFileSystem for operations on "normal" buckets (i.e., not
+zonal, rapid, hierarchical). Set GCSFS_EXPERIMENTAL_ZB_HNS_SUPPORT to
+disable.
+
+* docs for zonal/rapid storage support (#792, 788, 781)
+* test/ci/cov fixes (#785, 772, 766, 765, 764)
+* fix zonalfile writes to track byte count (#777)
+* benchmarks (#775, 770, 767, 762)
+* fix folder rename race (HNS) (#771)
+* create zonal buckets (#769)
+* graceful close (#763)
+* list: pass only valid kwargs (#759)
+* make mv_file atomic (#758)
+
 2026.2.0
 --------
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f8229088..117cbc47 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-aiohttp!=4.0.0a0, !=4.0.0a1
+aiohttp!=4.0.0a0, !=4.0.0a1, >=3.9.0
 decorator>4.1.2
-fsspec==2026.2.0
+fsspec==2026.3.0
 google-auth>=1.2
 google-auth-oauthlib
 google-cloud-storage>=3.9.0