diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d79e1dc1ea..be75438d6c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 * Add constant for default options in `lib/haml/helpers/action_view_mods.rb` [#966](https://github.com/haml/haml/pull/966) (thanks [Dillon Welch](https://github.com/oniofchaos))
 * Performance/memory usage improvement in `lib/haml/buffer.rb` [#963](https://github.com/haml/haml/pull/963) (thanks [Dillon Welch](https://github.com/oniofchaos))
-* Add erubis to gemspec so that `benchmark.rb` works [#964](https://github.com/haml/haml/pull/964) (thanks [Dillon Welch](https://github.com/oniofchaos))
 
 ## 5.0.4
 
diff --git a/haml.gemspec b/haml.gemspec
index 78ff09b40b..7b0580cf39 100644
--- a/haml.gemspec
+++ b/haml.gemspec
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency 'temple', '>= 0.8.0'
   spec.add_dependency 'tilt'
 
-  spec.add_development_dependency 'erubis' # for benchmark.rb
   spec.add_development_dependency 'rails', '>= 4.0.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'rbench'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'minitest', '>= 4.0'