diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7abf7ab6fd..a7c6ee12f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 * use [tombi](https://github.com/tombi-toml/tombi) for all toml file formatting
 
 ### Fixes
+* crash when opening submodule ([#2895](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2895))
 * when staging the last file in a directory, the first item after the directory is no longer skipped [[@Tillerino](https://github.com/Tillerino)] ([#2748](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2748))
 
 ## [0.28.1] - 2026-03-21
diff --git a/asyncgit/src/status.rs b/asyncgit/src/status.rs
index 2516e8bd38..9728c6f33e 100644
--- a/asyncgit/src/status.rs
+++ b/asyncgit/src/status.rs
@@ -138,9 +138,10 @@ impl AsyncStatus {
 			arc_generation.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
 			arc_pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
 
-			sender
-				.send(AsyncGitNotification::Status)
-				.expect("error sending status");
+			if let Err(e) = sender.send(AsyncGitNotification::Status)
+			{
+				log::error!("send status error: {e}");
+			}
 		});
 
 		Ok(None)