diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 31c761b..c88f75b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ limitations under the License.
 ## 0.4.1 (2023-11-09)
 
 - New: Place where workspaces with temporary Triton model repositories and communication file sockets can be configured by `$PYTRITON_HOME` environment variable
-- Fix: recover handling `KeyboardInterrupt` in `triton.serve()`
+- Fix: Recover handling `KeyboardInterrupt` in `triton.serve()`
+- Fix: Remove limit for handling bytes dtype tensors
 - Build scripts update
   - Added support for arm64 platform builds
 
diff --git a/pytriton/proxy/communication.py b/pytriton/proxy/communication.py
index f48441b..8a017e4 100644
--- a/pytriton/proxy/communication.py
+++ b/pytriton/proxy/communication.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def _deserialize_bytes_tensor(encoded_tensor, dtype, order: Literal["C", "F"] =
     return np.array(strs, dtype=dtype, order=order)
 
 
-_MAX_DTYPE_DESCR = 8
+_MAX_DTYPE_DESCR = 16  # up to 16 chars in dtype descr; |S2147483647 (2^31-1) with margin
 _PARTIAL_HEADER_FORMAT = f"<{_MAX_DTYPE_DESCR}scH"
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_communication_tensor_store.py b/tests/unit/test_communication_tensor_store.py
index 4b23ae8..146182b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_communication_tensor_store.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_communication_tensor_store.py
@@ -156,12 +156,23 @@ def test_tensor_store_connection_timeout(tmp_path):
             ],
             2,
         ),
+        # 2GB bytes array
+        (
+            [
+                np.array(b"a" * (2**31 - 1), dtype=bytes),
+            ],
+            1,
+        ),
     ),
 )
 def test_tensor_store_get_put_equal(tensor_store, tensors, n_times):
     for _ in range(n_times):
-        tensors_ids = tensor_store.put(tensors)
-        assert len(tensors) == len(tensors_ids)
-        for tensor, tensor_id in zip(tensors, tensors_ids):
-            tensor_retrieved = tensor_store.get(tensor_id)
-            np.testing.assert_equal(tensor, tensor_retrieved)
+        try:
+            tensors_ids = tensor_store.put(tensors)
+            assert len(tensors) == len(tensors_ids)
+            for tensor, tensor_id in zip(tensors, tensors_ids):
+                tensor_retrieved = tensor_store.get(tensor_id)
+                np.testing.assert_equal(tensor, tensor_retrieved)
+        finally:
+            for tensor_id in tensors_ids:
+                tensor_store.release_block(tensor_id)