diff --git a/patterns-base.changes b/patterns-base.changes
index f522b43..6409eac 100644
--- a/patterns-base.changes
+++ b/patterns-base.changes
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ Tue Aug 21 11:50:49 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
   bsc#1104264
 - Drop cryptconfig from suggest as it was removed from distro
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 26 14:46:15 UTC 2018 - rbrown@suse.com
+
+- Remove btrfsmaintenance from patterns-base (boo#1063638) 
+
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 Wed Jul 18 14:30:55 UTC 2018 - rbrown@suse.com
 
diff --git a/patterns-base.spec b/patterns-base.spec
index 9881d1f..c9129e5 100644
--- a/patterns-base.spec
+++ b/patterns-base.spec
@@ -525,7 +525,6 @@ Requires:       system-group-hardware
 Requires:       system-user-nobody
 Requires:       systemd
 Requires:       zypper
-Recommends:     btrfsmaintenance
 Recommends:     btrfsprogs
 Recommends:     elfutils
 Recommends:     grub2