diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b02360a37..06283a4d6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: bslib
 Title: Custom 'Bootstrap' 'Sass' Themes for 'shiny' and 'rmarkdown'
-Version: 0.6.1
+Version: 0.6.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Carson", "Sievert", , "carson@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4958-2844")),
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Imports:
     memoise (>= 2.0.1),
     mime,
     rlang,
-    sass (>= 0.4.0)
+    sass (>= 0.4.9)
 Suggests:
     bsicons,
     curl,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ba5a59bfe..bc543b667 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# bslib 0.6.2
+
+Increased the version requirement on the `{sass}` package to 0.4.9. As a result, `font_google(local=TRUE)` should no longer fail to download font files. 
+
 # bslib 0.6.1
 
 ## Bug fixes
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-fill.R b/tests/testthat/test-fill.R
index 306691f4e..7c83eb30f 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-fill.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-fill.R
@@ -311,10 +311,6 @@ test_that("as_fill_carrier() with a nested tag on inner tag", {
 # Remove All Fill -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 test_that("remove_all_fill() removes fill from outer element", {
-  expect_equal(
-    remove_all_fill(as_fill_item(tag_simple())),
-    tag_simple()
-  )
 
   # ignoring the 'htmltools-fill' dependency
   expect_equal(