diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e894eed..645e6e30 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
   `BTN_LEFT+3` by default) ([#1364][1364]).
 * `file://` prefix from URI's are no longer stripped when
   opened/activated ([#1474][1474]).
+* `XTGETTCAP` with capabilities that are not properly hex encoded will
+  be ignored, instead of echo:ed back to the TTY in an error response.
 
 [1391]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1391
 [1448]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/1448
diff --git a/dcs.c b/dcs.c
index 7ce1a868..601f1172 100644
--- a/dcs.c
+++ b/dcs.c
@@ -111,14 +111,11 @@ static void
 xtgettcap_reply(struct terminal *term, const char *hex_cap_name, size_t len)
 {
     char *name = hex_decode(hex_cap_name, len);
-    if (name == NULL)
-        goto err;
+    if (name == NULL) {
+        LOG_WARN("XTGETTCAP: invalid hex encoding, ignoring capability");
+        return;
+    }
 
-#if 0
-    const struct foot_terminfo_entry *entry =
-        bsearch(name, terminfo_capabilities, ALEN(terminfo_capabilities),
-                sizeof(*entry), &terminfo_entry_compar);
-#endif
     const char *value;
     bool valid_capability = lookup_capability(name, &value);
     xassert(!valid_capability || value != NULL);