diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 919c79b1..b4920f3c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@ filelock
 numpy
 boto3
 requests
-s5cmd
diff --git a/src/litdata/__about__.py b/src/litdata/__about__.py
index 58e7f735..9e2b2203 100644
--- a/src/litdata/__about__.py
+++ b/src/litdata/__about__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 import time
 
-__version__ = "0.2.20"
+__version__ = "0.2.21"
 __author__ = "Lightning AI et al."
 __author_email__ = "pytorch@lightning.ai"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"