diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 871097389b..2131255c1b 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file based on the
 
 ### Backward Compatibility Breaks
 ### Bugfixes
+* Added conflict with `elasticsearch/elasticsearch` version `6.8.1` [#1948](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/pull/1948)
 ### Added
 ### Improvements
 ### Deprecated
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index fbb0917842..d60cfa815a 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.0"
     },
     "conflict": {
-        "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "6.8.0"
+        "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "6.8.0 || 6.8.1"
     },
     "suggest": {
         "aws/aws-sdk-php": "Allow using IAM authentication with Amazon ElasticSearch Service",