diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 374ac7d..8bf80fe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 ### Improvements
 
 - [\#36](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/groth16/pull/36) Documentation updates and minor optimization in setup.
+- [\#63](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/groth16/pull/63) Removed an unneeded `ark-relations/std` dependency.
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 948101b..56aebce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ark-r1cs-std = { version = "0.4.0", default-features = false }
 
 [features]
 default = ["parallel"]
-std = ["ark-ff/std", "ark-ec/std", "ark-poly/std", "ark-relations/std", "ark-crypto-primitives/std", "ark-std/std" ]
+std = ["ark-ff/std", "ark-ec/std", "ark-poly/std", "ark-crypto-primitives/std", "ark-std/std" ]
 parallel = ["std", "ark-ff/parallel", "ark-poly/parallel", "ark-ec/parallel", "ark-crypto-primitives/parallel", "ark-std/parallel", "rayon"]
 r1cs = [ "ark-crypto-primitives/r1cs", "ark-r1cs-std", "tracing", "derivative" ]
 print-trace = [ "ark-std/print-trace" ]