diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0a4b4f1..1b2f89f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- Upgrade to wombat 3.8.11 (#256)
+
 ## [5.1.1] - 2025-02-17
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/openzim.toml b/openzim.toml
index b0a1047..b1ca194 100644
--- a/openzim.toml
+++ b/openzim.toml
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ execute_after=[
 
 [files.assets.actions."wombat.js"]
 action="get_file"
-source="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@webrecorder/wombat@3.8.8/dist/wombat.js"
+source="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@webrecorder/wombat@3.8.11/dist/wombat.js"
 target_file="wombat.js"
diff --git a/tests/zim/test_indexing.py b/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
index 6f5013f..557ab37 100644
--- a/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
+++ b/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ def test_indexing_item_is_front(tmp_path: pathlib.Path, png_image: pathlib.Path)
     assert reader.get_search_results_count("food") == 0
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip  # see https://github.com/openzim/python-scraperlib/issues/258
 def test_indexing_item_not_front(tmp_path: pathlib.Path, png_image: pathlib.Path):
     fpath = tmp_path / "test.zim"
     main_path = "welcome"