diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0cd77783..c1cc6ae4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.28.1] - 2026-03-21
+
 ### Changed
+* support proper pre-push hook ([#2809](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2809))
 * improve `gitui --version` message [[@hlsxx](https://github.com/hlsxx)] ([#2838](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2838))
 * rust msrv bumped to `1.88`
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 034a9871..bdf38c2d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "git2-hooks"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "git2",
  "git2-testing",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c6c6f6d0..81294027 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ build = "build.rs"
 
 [workspace]
 members = [
-    "asyncgit",
-    "filetreelist",
-    "git2-hooks",
-    "git2-testing",
-    "scopetime",
+  "asyncgit",
+  "filetreelist",
+  "git2-hooks",
+  "git2-testing",
+  "scopetime",
 ]
 
 [features]
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ vendor-openssl = ["asyncgit/vendor-openssl"]
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0"
-asyncgit = { path = "./asyncgit", version = "0.28.0", default-features = false }
+asyncgit = { path = "./asyncgit", version = "0.29.0", default-features = false }
 backtrace = "0.3"
 base64 = "0.22"
 bitflags = "2.10"
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ crossbeam-channel = "0.5"
 crossterm = { version = "0.28", features = ["serde"] }
 dirs = "6.0"
 easy-cast = "0.5"
-filetreelist = { path = "./filetreelist", version = "0.5" }
+filetreelist = { path = "./filetreelist", version = ">=0.6" }
 fuzzy-matcher = "0.3"
 gh-emoji = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 indexmap = "2"
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ maintenance = { status = "actively-developed" }
 opt-level = 3
 
 [profile.release]
-opt-level = "z"  # Optimize for size.
+opt-level = "z"     # Optimize for size.
 strip = "debuginfo"
 lto = true
 codegen-units = 1
diff --git a/asyncgit/Cargo.toml b/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
index ff9fb355..ea8b38f6 100644
--- a/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,14 +8,9 @@ homepage = "https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui"
 repository = "https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MIT"
-categories = ["concurrency", "asynchronous"]
+categories = ["asynchronous", "concurrency"]
 keywords = ["git"]
 
-[features]
-default = ["trace-libgit"]
-trace-libgit = []
-vendor-openssl = ["openssl-sys"]
-
 [dependencies]
 bitflags = "2"
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5"
@@ -25,16 +20,16 @@ fuzzy-matcher = "0.3"
 git2 = "0.20"
 git2-hooks = { path = "../git2-hooks", version = ">=0.6" }
 gix = { version = "0.78.0", default-features = false, features = [
-    "max-performance",
-    "revision",
-    "mailmap",
-    "status",
+  "mailmap",
+  "max-performance",
+  "revision",
+  "status",
 ] }
 log = "0.4"
 # git2 = { path = "../../extern/git2-rs", features = ["vendored-openssl"]}
 # git2 = { git="https://github.com/extrawurst/git2-rs.git", rev="fc13dcc", features = ["vendored-openssl"]}
 # pinning to vendored openssl, using the git2 feature this gets lost with new resolver
-openssl-sys = { version = '0.9', features = ["vendored"], optional = true }
+openssl-sys = { version = "0.9", features = ["vendored"], optional = true }
 rayon = "1.11"
 rayon-core = "1.13"
 scopetime = { path = "../scopetime", version = "0.1" }
@@ -50,3 +45,8 @@ invalidstring = { path = "../invalidstring", version = "0.1" }
 pretty_assertions = "1.4"
 serial_test = "3.3"
 tempfile = "3"
+
+[features]
+default = ["trace-libgit"]
+trace-libgit = []
+vendor-openssl = ["openssl-sys"]
diff --git a/filetreelist/Cargo.toml b/filetreelist/Cargo.toml
index d7a1f443..f9687767 100644
--- a/filetreelist/Cargo.toml
+++ b/filetreelist/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "filetreelist"
-version = "0.5.3"
+version = "0.6.0"
 authors = ["extrawurst <mail@rusticorn.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "filetree abstraction based on a sorted path list, supports key based navigation events, folding, scrolling and more"
diff --git a/git2-hooks/Cargo.toml b/git2-hooks/Cargo.toml
index 46b6a399..a6aae611 100644
--- a/git2-hooks/Cargo.toml
+++ b/git2-hooks/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "git2-hooks"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 authors = ["extrawurst <mail@rusticorn.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "adds git hooks support based on git2-rs"