diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aace1eaf7cf..d4dd0e16411 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 - `PyList`, `PyTuple` and `PySequence`'s `get_item` now accepts only `usize` indices instead of `isize`. [#1733](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/1733)
 - `PyList` and `PyTuple`'s `get_item` now return `PyResult<&PyAny> instead of panicking. [#1733](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/1733)
 - Deprecate `PyTuple::split_from`. [#1804](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/1804)
+- `pyo3`'s `Cargo.toml` now advertises `links = "python"` to inform Cargo that it links against *libpython*. [#1819](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/1819)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3f819fb9c1b..d3056702b15 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ categories = ["api-bindings", "development-tools::ffi"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 exclude = ["/.gitignore", ".cargo/config", "/codecov.yml", "/Makefile", "/pyproject.toml", "/tox.ini"]
 edition = "2018"
+links = "python"
 
 [dependencies]
 cfg-if = { version = "1.0" }