diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md
index 53228b43..0dbc45f7 100644
--- a/docs/usage.md
+++ b/docs/usage.md
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Indexes:
 ```
 
 ```{note}
-Passing `indexes={}` will only work if you use a [specific branch of xarray](https://github.com/TomNicholas/xarray/tree/concat-no-indexes), as it requires multiple in-progress PR's, see [GH issue #14](https://github.com/TomNicholas/VirtualiZarr/issues/14#issuecomment-2018369470).
+Passing `indexes={}` will only work if you use a [specific branch of xarray](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/8872), as it requires an in-progress PR, see [GH issue #14](https://github.com/TomNicholas/VirtualiZarr/issues/14#issuecomment-2018369470).
 ```
 
 As we know the correct order a priori, we can just combine along one dimension using `xarray.concat`.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 091d4a6b..7bde54f5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ classifiers = [
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 dependencies = [
-    "xarray@git+https://github.com/TomNicholas/xarray.git@concat-no-indexes#egg=xarray",
+    "xarray@git+https://github.com/TomNicholas/xarray.git@concat-avoid-index-auto-creation#egg=xarray",
     "kerchunk==0.2.2",
     "h5netcdf",
     "pydantic",