diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e98a6763c4a..f7be91dfd94 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Also, that release drops support for Python 3.9, making Python 3.10 the minimum
 * Removed the obsolete interface from DPNP to Numba JIT [#2647](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2647)
 * Removed the `newshape` parameter from `dpnp.reshape`, which has been deprecated since dpnp 0.17.0. Pass it positionally or use `shape=` on newer versions [#2670](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2670)
 * Removed unused `pytest` configuration from `pyproject.toml` [#2729](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2729)
+* Dropped a conda run dependency on `onemkl-sycl-stats` package [#2771](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2771)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index 5ee519fc921..956ff6db013 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ requirements:
       - {{ pin_compatible('onemkl-sycl-dft', min_pin='x.x', max_pin='x') }}
       - {{ pin_compatible('onemkl-sycl-lapack', min_pin='x.x', max_pin='x') }}
       - {{ pin_compatible('onemkl-sycl-rng', min_pin='x.x', max_pin='x') }}
-      - {{ pin_compatible('onemkl-sycl-stats', min_pin='x.x', max_pin='x') }}
       - {{ pin_compatible('onemkl-sycl-vm', min_pin='x.x', max_pin='x') }}
       - numpy
       - intel-gpu-ocl-icd-system