diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
index 23dc746bf..ef29dd67c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   linux:
     name: ${{ matrix.PY }}-pytest
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
 
   lint:
     name: lint
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@main
       - uses: actions/setup-python@main
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
 #
   downstream:
     name: downstream
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@ jobs:
 
   fsspec_friends:
     name: ${{ matrix.FRIEND }}-pytest
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        FRIEND: [gcsfs, s3fs]
+        FRIEND: [s3fs, gcsfs]
 
     env:
       CIRUN: true
@@ -155,9 +155,11 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
           pip install -e . --no-deps
-          pip install -e ./${{ matrix.FRIEND }} --no-deps
           pip list
 
       - name: Test
         shell: bash -l {0}
-        run: pytest -v ${{ matrix.FRIEND }}
+        run: |
+          cd ${{ matrix.FRIEND }}
+          pytest -v
+          cd ..
diff --git a/ci/environment-friends.yml b/ci/environment-friends.yml
index 6e6b79a14..2126744af 100644
--- a/ci/environment-friends.yml
+++ b/ci/environment-friends.yml
@@ -26,4 +26,6 @@ dependencies:
   - aiobotocore
   - moto
   - flask
-  - pyopenssl>=24.0.0
+  - pip:
+    - git+https://github.com/fsspec/s3fs
+    - git+https://github.com/fsspec/gcsfs
diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.rst b/docs/source/changelog.rst
index fea257b44..df4f83d6f 100644
--- a/docs/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/source/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,31 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+2024.12.0
+---------
+
+Enhancements
+
+- "exclusive" mode for writing (#1762, 1756, 174+)
+- "tree" text display of filesystem contents (#1750)
+- async wrapper for sync FSs (#1745)
+- new known implementation: tosfs (#1739)
+- consilidate block fetch requests (#1733)
+
+Fixes
+
+- better webHDFS proxies (#
+- syn FSs in referenceFS (#1755)
+- don't serialize file caches (#1753)
+- race condition in local ls() (#1744)
+- missing/nan references in parquet (#1738)
+- _un_chain kwargs (@1736)
+- async _cat_file in referenceFS (#1734)
+
+Other
+
+- fallback implementation for _fetch_range (#1732)
+
 2024.10.0
 ---------