diff --git a/webkit2gtk3.changes b/webkit2gtk3.changes
index b0f5f6f..43a097f 100644
--- a/webkit2gtk3.changes
+++ b/webkit2gtk3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 23 07:19:42 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Drop ncurses-devel BuildRequires: this is no longer required.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  9 23:32:25 UTC 2017 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/webkit2gtk3.spec b/webkit2gtk3.spec
index 0e24b16..2aa4be8 100644
--- a/webkit2gtk3.spec
+++ b/webkit2gtk3.spec
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ BuildRequires:  gperf >= 3.0.1
 BuildRequires:  hyphen-devel
 BuildRequires:  libicu-devel
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
-BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl >= 5.10.0
 BuildRequires:  python >= 2.6.0
 BuildRequires:  ruby >= 1.8.7