diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 129711b2..f62a9669 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 ### Changed
 - Small refactor of AWS Signer classes for both sync and async clients ([866](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/866))
 - Small refactor to fix overwriting the module files when generating apis ([874](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/874))
+- Fixed a "type ignore" lint error
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/opensearchpy/_async/http_aiohttp.py b/opensearchpy/_async/http_aiohttp.py
index 1de47634..a3c98c1a 100644
--- a/opensearchpy/_async/http_aiohttp.py
+++ b/opensearchpy/_async/http_aiohttp.py
@@ -386,4 +386,4 @@ async def text(self, encoding: Any = None, errors: str = "strict") -> Any:
         if self._body is None:
             await self.read()
 
-        return self._body.decode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")  # type: ignore
+        return self._body.decode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")
diff --git a/opensearchpy/connection/http_async.py b/opensearchpy/connection/http_async.py
index 7fb69093..0f3f8004 100644
--- a/opensearchpy/connection/http_async.py
+++ b/opensearchpy/connection/http_async.py
@@ -298,4 +298,4 @@ async def text(self, encoding: Any = None, errors: str = "strict") -> Any:
         if self._body is None:
             await self.read()
 
-        return self._body.decode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")  # type: ignore
+        return self._body.decode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")