diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4ed9c403..570eaff4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 
 ### Removed
 
+* evolinux-base: no need to remove update-evobackup-canary from sbin anymore
 * evolinux-base: no need to symlink backup-server-state to dump-server-state anymore
 
 ### Security
diff --git a/evolinux-base/tasks/utils.yml b/evolinux-base/tasks/utils.yml
index a1c4d646..e3477d08 100644
--- a/evolinux-base/tasks/utils.yml
+++ b/evolinux-base/tasks/utils.yml
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
     group: root
     mode: "0755"
 
-# TODO: delete when this has been run once on all our servers
-- name: update-evobackup-canary is removed from sbin
-  ansible.builtin.file:
-    path: /usr/local/sbin/update-evobackup-canary
-    state: absent
-
 - name: Deploy htop configuration
   ansible.builtin.copy:
     src: htoprc