diff --git a/flake-pilot.changes b/flake-pilot.changes
index 57caed5..e46ba47 100644
--- a/flake-pilot.changes
+++ b/flake-pilot.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 25 09:45:27 CET 2024 - Marcus Schäfer <marcus.schaefer@gmail.com>
+
+- Drop upx binary compression
+
+  Startup time seems more important than binary size on
+  target. The original reason for the compression was due
+  to very limited size constraints from a former customer
+  who no longer sticks to them.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 25 09:28:22 CET 2024 - Marcus Schäfer <marcus.schaefer@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/flake-pilot.spec b/flake-pilot.spec
index 511f24f..8bb3594 100644
--- a/flake-pilot.spec
+++ b/flake-pilot.spec
@@ -43,14 +43,12 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-docutils
 %if 0%{?suse_version}
 BuildRequires:  rust
 BuildRequires:  cargo
-BuildRequires:  upx
 BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  glibc-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  python3-Pygments
 %endif
 %if 0%{?debian} || 0%{?ubuntu}
 BuildRequires:  rust-all
-BuildRequires:  upx-ucl
 BuildRequires:  libssl-dev
 BuildRequires:  openssl
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
diff --git a/flake-pilot.tar.gz b/flake-pilot.tar.gz
index 665169b..be3d69f 100644
--- a/flake-pilot.tar.gz
+++ b/flake-pilot.tar.gz
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:164529313ca9c0a08070f6bf380d90e9032e80fe6b62c3655c4c846559d70183
-size 19286485
+oid sha256:f3c652d7622b0a9ad2dcd9d7fe7bd2d3d1fa677717b0d5a7b1aaf08e181d807b
+size 19292664