diff --git a/mariadb.changes b/mariadb.changes
index a236053..7175325 100644
--- a/mariadb.changes
+++ b/mariadb.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 15 15:39:01 UTC 2019 - rick.salevsky@suse.com
+
+- remove xtrabackup requirement as MariaDB ships a build in
+  mariabackup so xtrabackup is not needed unless a user specificaly
+  wants to use xtrabackup as sst method
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 14 15:01:27 UTC 2019 - Thomas Bechtold <tbechtold@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/mariadb.spec b/mariadb.spec
index 5267dad..dc92389 100644
--- a/mariadb.spec
+++ b/mariadb.spec
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ Requires:       lsof
 Requires:       rsync
 Requires:       socat
 Requires:       which
-Requires:       xtrabackup
 # We need Conflicts here as galera_new_cluster (and use_galera_new_cluster.conf)
 # and galera_recovery scripts were in mariadb package but now they are in galera
 # subpackage