diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 60a17d78..59dde451 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Version 64:
 * Simplify websocket write_op
 * Exemplars are compiled code
 * Better User-Agent in examples
+* async_write requires a non-const message
+* Doc tidying
 
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diff --git a/include/beast/http/impl/write.ipp b/include/beast/http/impl/write.ipp
index 287f6b31..34f0217b 100644
--- a/include/beast/http/impl/write.ipp
+++ b/include/beast/http/impl/write.ipp
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ class write_msg_op
             Body, Fields, no_chunk_decorator> sr;
 
         data(Handler& h, Stream& s_, message<
-                isRequest, Body, Fields> const& m_)
+                isRequest, Body, Fields>& m_)
             : s(s_)
             , sr(m_, no_chunk_decorator{})
         {
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ template<class AsyncWriteStream,
 async_return_type<
     WriteHandler, void(error_code)>
 async_write(AsyncWriteStream& stream,
-    message<isRequest, Body, Fields> const& msg,
+    message<isRequest, Body, Fields>& msg,
         WriteHandler&& handler)
 {
     static_assert(
diff --git a/include/beast/http/write.hpp b/include/beast/http/write.hpp
index 296b2b04..3b1a3ec6 100644
--- a/include/beast/http/write.hpp
+++ b/include/beast/http/write.hpp
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ template<class AsyncWriteStream,
 async_return_type<
     WriteHandler, void(error_code)>
 async_write(AsyncWriteStream& stream,
-    message<isRequest, Body, Fields> const& msg,
+    message<isRequest, Body, Fields>& msg,
         WriteHandler&& handler);
 
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