diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 6efe8b5d..e5f3bc8d 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 
-18 Sep 2014, version 0.11.2
+18 Sep 2014, version 0.11.3
 
-- fix 500 error in adduser in sinopia-htpasswd (issue [#121](https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/issues/121))
+- fix 500 error in adduser function in sinopia-htpasswd (issue [#121](https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/issues/121))
+- fix fd leak in authenticate function in sinopia-htpasswd (issue [#116](https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/issues/116))
 
 15 Sep 2014, version 0.11.1
 
diff --git a/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/index.js b/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/index.js
index e9816295..eb52c7f5 100644
--- a/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/index.js
+++ b/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/index.js
@@ -115,7 +115,10 @@ HTPasswd.prototype._reload = function(callback) {
         if (err) return callback(err)
         if (bytesRead != st.size) return callback(new Error('st.size != bytesRead'))
         self._users = utils.parse_htpasswd(buffer.toString('utf8'))
-        callback()
+
+        fs.close(fd, function() {
+          callback()
+        })
       })
     })
   })
diff --git a/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/package.json b/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/package.json
index 9a5dbf82..b57acff3 100644
--- a/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/package.json
+++ b/node_modules/sinopia-htpasswd/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name"                : "sinopia-htpasswd",
-  "version"             : "0.4.2",
+  "version"             : "0.4.3",
   "description"         : "auth plugin for sinopia supporting htpasswd format",
 
   "author"              : { "name": "Alex Kocharin"
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "crypt3": ">=0.1.5 <1.0.0-0",
     "fs-ext": "*"
   },
-  "_id"             : "sinopia-htpasswd@0.4.2",
-  "_shasum"             : "22305fec9de2f0a672158c45fc5a02165ef49849",
+  "_id"             : "sinopia-htpasswd@0.4.3",
+  "_shasum"             : "f69cbfe9bd347359a0ed591f66f08a60cc4ee982",
   "_from"             : "sinopia-htpasswd@>= 0.4.2"
 }
diff --git a/package.yaml b/package.yaml
index 33af7aea..1fc5021e 100644
--- a/package.yaml
+++ b/package.yaml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dependencies:
   onscroll: '>=0.0.3 <1.0.0-0'
   transition-complete: '>=0.0.2 <1.0.0-0'
   helpers.less: 'git://github.com/bpeacock/helpers.less.git'
-  sinopia-htpasswd: '>= 0.4.2'
+  sinopia-htpasswd: '>= 0.4.3'
   http-errors: '~1.2.0' # ferver
 
   # TODO: not really needed