diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 45a3999..147849b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+0.13.1
+- Bug fix for io.read_features with Fiona 1.8+
+
 0.13.0
 - Require Rasterio>=1.0
 - Fix buffer logic for boxify_points (#171)
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 267e341..c60b34b 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1043 and 1032
-pytest>=3.0
+pytest>=4.0
 
 coverage
 simplejson
-git+git://github.com/mverteuil/pytest-ipdb.git
 twine
 numpydoc
 pytest-cov
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ef0c067..4259f6b 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # content of setup.cfg
-[pytest]
+[tool:pytest]
 norecursedirs = examples* src* scripts* docs*
 # addopts = --verbose -rf --ipdb --maxfail=1
 
diff --git a/src/rasterstats/_version.py b/src/rasterstats/_version.py
index f23a6b3..7e0dc0e 100644
--- a/src/rasterstats/_version.py
+++ b/src/rasterstats/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.13.0"
+__version__ = "0.13.1"
diff --git a/src/rasterstats/io.py b/src/rasterstats/io.py
index 4486f85..04e2687 100644
--- a/src/rasterstats/io.py
+++ b/src/rasterstats/io.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import json
 import math
 import fiona
+from fiona.errors import DriverError
 import rasterio
 import warnings
 from rasterio.transform import guard_transform
@@ -14,6 +15,10 @@
     from shapely.errors import ReadingError
 except:
     from shapely.geos import ReadingError
+try:
+    from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError
+except ImportError:
+    JSONDecodeError = ValueError
 from shapely import wkt, wkb
 from collections import Iterable, Mapping
 
@@ -76,6 +81,7 @@ def parse_feature(obj):
 
 def read_features(obj, layer=0):
     features_iter = None
+    
     if isinstance(obj, string_types):
         try:
             # test it as fiona data source
@@ -88,14 +94,14 @@ def fiona_generator(obj):
                         yield feature
 
             features_iter = fiona_generator(obj)
-        except (AssertionError, TypeError, IOError, OSError):
+        except (AssertionError, TypeError, IOError, OSError, DriverError, UnicodeDecodeError):
             try:
                 mapping = json.loads(obj)
                 if 'type' in mapping and mapping['type'] == 'FeatureCollection':
                     features_iter = mapping['features']
                 elif mapping['type'] in geom_types + ['Feature']:
                     features_iter = [parse_feature(mapping)]
-            except ValueError:
+            except (ValueError, JSONDecodeError):
                 # Single feature-like string
                 features_iter = [parse_feature(obj)]
     elif isinstance(obj, Mapping):