diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a2fff7f..4cf77ba 100755
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Release History
 master
 ------
 
+0.4.1 (2018-12-05)
+------------------
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+* Add chardet to `install_requires` to fix [#210](https://github.com/socialcopsdev/camelot/issues/210). More details in [pdfminer.six#213](https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/issues/213).
+
 0.4.0 (2018-11-23)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/camelot/__version__.py b/camelot/__version__.py
index a48c9db..48246be 100644
--- a/camelot/__version__.py
+++ b/camelot/__version__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-VERSION = (0, 4, 0)
+VERSION = (0, 4, 1)
 PRERELEASE = None # alpha, beta or rc
 REVISION = None
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 417b460..b83f566 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
 
 
 requires = [
+    'chardet>=3.0.4',
     'click>=6.7',
     'numpy>=1.13.3',
     'openpyxl>=2.5.8',