diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.rst b/docs/source/changelog.rst
index 528acfa77..7f4e84f13 100644
--- a/docs/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/source/changelog.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,40 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Dev
----
+2026.7.0
+--------
 
 Enhancements
 
-- Single-pass ``MemoryFileSystem.find()`` to avoid O(n_dirs * n_entries) listing; ``ls()`` previously scanned the whole store once per directory, now one pass over the flat store suffices (#2055)
+- Single-pass ``MemoryFileSystem.find()`` to avoid O(n_dirs * n_entries) listing (#2055)
+- Permit composite URL protocol schemes in infer_storage_options (#2085)
+- Implement topdown in async walk() (#2052)
+
+Fixes
+
+- Fix incorrect glob docstring for '[!]' (#2084)
+- Propagate storage_options to all backends resolved by GenericFileSystem (#2083)
+- Handle end=None in FirstChunkCache._fetch like the other caches (#2082)
+- Clamp read end to file size in BlockCache and BackgroundBlockCache(#2081)
+- Create the parent dir for "x" and "a" modes under auto_mkdir (#2079)
+- Expand paths for mode="x" when urlpath is a list (#2078)
+- fix: correctly pass 'start' and 'end' parameters to super().cat_file() (#2077)
+- Fix LocalFileSystem directory symlink removal (#2074)
+- Fix ArrowFSWrapper parent paths for S3 (#2072)
+- Fix get_file_extension when a parent directory name contains a dot (#2071)
+- tar: make members with duplicate slashes reachable via ls/find/glob (#2063)
+- MemoryFileSystem: create the file when appending to a missing path (#2062)
+
+Other
+
+- fixes for pytest deprecation (#2076)
+- Shut down background cache workers on file close (#2069)
+- Forward ls kwargs from cached filesystems (#2068)
+- Fix bare except: use except Exception in upload cleanup handler (#2067)
+- fix: Make Cached metaclass instance instantiation thread-safe and fork-safe (#2064)
+- ci: fix test collection in fsspec_friends job (#2061)
+- ftp: Make deprecated TLS versions optional (#2056)
+- restrict cache storage directory permissions to owner (#2048)
 
 2026.6.0
 --------
diff --git a/fsspec/__init__.py b/fsspec/__init__.py
index 452c78a05..5de87eda1 100644
--- a/fsspec/__init__.py
+++ b/fsspec/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from . import caching
-from ._version import __version__  # noqa: F401
 from .callbacks import Callback
 from .compression import available_compressions
 from .core import get_fs_token_paths, open, open_files, open_local, url_to_fs
@@ -14,6 +13,11 @@
 )
 from .spec import AbstractFileSystem
 
+try:
+    from ._version import __version__  # noqa: F401
+except ImportError:
+    __version__ = "unknown"
+
 __all__ = [
     "AbstractFileSystem",
     "FSTimeoutError",
diff --git a/fsspec/tests/test_downstream.py b/fsspec/tests/test_downstream.py
index 1f0a0bc0e..b24d7e4c2 100644
--- a/fsspec/tests/test_downstream.py
+++ b/fsspec/tests/test_downstream.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
         test_bucket_name,
     )
 except ImportError:
-    pytest.skip("s3 tests not available.")
+    pytest.skip("s3 tests not available.", allow_module_level=True)
 
 so = {"anon": False, "client_kwargs": {"endpoint_url": endpoint_uri}}
 
diff --git a/fsspec/tests/test_parquet.py b/fsspec/tests/test_parquet.py
index 20929cd1c..3df83f48e 100644
--- a/fsspec/tests/test_parquet.py
+++ b/fsspec/tests/test_parquet.py
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def test_nested(n, tmpdir, engine):
     pa = pytest.importorskip("pyarrow")
     flat = pa.array([random.random() for _ in range(n)])
     nested = pa.array([{"a": random.random(), "b": random.random()} for _ in range(n)])
-    data = [float(_[0]) for _ in nested]
+    data = [float(_[0].as_py()) for _ in nested]
     table = pa.table({"flat": flat, "nested": nested})
     pq.write_table(table, path)
     with open_parquet_file(path, columns=["nested.a"], engine=engine) as fh:
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def test_nested_arrow_nodict(tmpdir):
     path = os.path.join(str(tmpdir), "test.parquet")
     flat = pa.array([random.random() for _ in range(n)])
     nested = pa.array([{"a": random.random(), "b": random.random()} for _ in range(n)])
-    data = [float(_[0]) for _ in nested]
+    data = [float(_[0].as_py()) for _ in nested]
     table = pa.table({"flat": flat, "nested": nested})
     pq.write_table(table, path, use_dictionary=False)
     with open_parquet_file(path, columns=["nested"], engine="pyarrow") as fh: