diff --git a/cloud-init.changes b/cloud-init.changes
index eb61270..f59020b 100644
--- a/cloud-init.changes
+++ b/cloud-init.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 11 18:21:54 UTC 2017 - rjschwei@suse.com
+
+- Drop python-cheetah as requirement
+  + Cheetah is no maintained and cloud-init switches to Jinja2 as
+    templating engine if Cheetah is not available
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug 25 23:11:41 UTC 2017 - rjschwei@suse.com
 
diff --git a/cloud-init.spec b/cloud-init.spec
index 6ce12b6..9027b27 100644
--- a/cloud-init.spec
+++ b/cloud-init.spec
@@ -95,9 +95,7 @@ Requires:       net-tools-deprecated
 %endif
 Requires:       openssh
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1320
-Requires:       python3-argparse
 Requires:       python3-boto >= 2.7
-Requires:       python3-cheetah
 Requires:       python3-configobj
 Requires:       python3-Jinja2
 Requires:       python3-jsonpatch
@@ -112,7 +110,6 @@ Requires:       python3-xml
 %else
 Requires:       python-argparse
 Requires:       python-boto >= 2.7
-Requires:       python-cheetah
 Requires:       python-configobj
 Requires:       python-Jinja2
 Requires:       python-jsonpatch