diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5808d9f296..0a81711540 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 - Update Gitpod profile resources to reflect base environment settings.
 - ([#747](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/issues/747)) Add to the template the code to dump the selected pipeline parameters into a json file.
 - [#2161] Disable process selector warnings by default.
+- Remove `docker.userEmulation` from nextflow.config in pipeline template ([#2580](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2580))
 
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diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/nextflow.config b/nf_core/pipeline-template/nextflow.config
index 7adaaed1a7..b4402c46a6 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/nextflow.config
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/nextflow.config
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ profiles {
     }
     docker {
         docker.enabled         = true
-        docker.userEmulation   = true
         conda.enabled          = false
         singularity.enabled    = false
         podman.enabled         = false