diff --git a/third_party/skcms/skcms.cc b/third_party/skcms/skcms.cc
index 3de90d0..8ae3329 100644
--- a/third_party/skcms/skcms.cc
+++ b/third_party/skcms/skcms.cc
@@ -1929,9 +1929,8 @@
         // We'd better have a sane, sRGB-ish TF by now.
         // Other non-Bad TFs would be fine, but we know we've only ever tried to fit sRGBish;
         // anything else is just some accident of math and the way we pun tf.g as a type flag.
-        // fit_nonlinear() should guarantee this.
+        // fit_nonlinear() should guarantee this, but the special cases may fail this test.
         if (sRGBish != classify(tf)) {
-            assert(false);
             continue;
         }
 
diff --git a/third_party/skcms/version.sha1 b/third_party/skcms/version.sha1
index 6ed1546..62fc247 100755
--- a/third_party/skcms/version.sha1
+++ b/third_party/skcms/version.sha1
@@ -1 +1 @@
-cd31cb38833cfd31e271f592b77d5dfeece3799d
\ No newline at end of file
+ec78f685becda099b59d4719bd0ba786bd83015a
\ No newline at end of file