diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 289ba5b0..95b6811b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-X.X.X - 2021-XX-XX
+1.5.0 - 2021-07-15
 ------------------
 
 **New features:**
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ X.X.X - 2021-XX-XX
 **Other:**
 
 * Methods of :class:`~quantcore.glm._link.Link` now consistently return NumPy arrays, whereas they used to preserve pandas series in special cases.
+* Don't list ``sparse_dot_mkl`` as a runtime requirement from the conda recipe.
+* The minimal ``numpy`` pin should be dependent on the ``numpy`` version in ``host`` and not fixed to ``1.16``.
 
 
 1.4.3 - 2021-06-25
diff --git a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
index 47942444..dea4f1f6 100644
--- a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -40,11 +40,10 @@ requirements:
     - python
     - joblib
     - numexpr
-    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy', lower_bound='1.16') }}
+    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy') }}
     - pandas
     - scikit-learn >=0.23
     - scipy
-    - sparse_dot_mkl >=0.4.0
     - quantcore.matrix >=1.0.0
 
 test: