diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 872da6ba..a9a70058 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ document-features = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 encoding_rs = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0.100", optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["io-util"] }
-memchr = "2.0"
+memchr = "2.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "0.4"
diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index a41dae64..8324d3f8 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
   `DeEvent::CData` events was replaced by `DeEvent::Text` with merged content.
   The same behavior for the `Reader` does not implemented (yet?) and should be
   implemented manually
+- [#562]: Correctly set minimum required version of memchr dependency to 2.1
 
 ### Misc Changes
 
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 [#540]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-xml/issues/540
 [#541]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-xml/pull/541
 [#556]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-xml/pull/556
+[#562]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-xml/pull/562
 
 ## 0.27.1 -- 2022-12-28