diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 15fbcc2c..1c257cf7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 unreleased
 ----------
 
-- Add Alpine 3.17 (3.16 is now tier 2 and 3.15 is deprecated). (@MisterDA #129)
+- Add Alpine 3.17 (3.16 is now tier 2 and 3.15 is deprecated). Remove
+  libexecinfo-dev from the list of apk packages as it is no longer
+  available. Its symbols are only used in OCaml's self tests.
+  (@MisterDA #129, #130)
 
 v8.1.0 2022-11-17 Sydney
 ----------
diff --git a/src-opam/linux.ml b/src-opam/linux.ml
index 1dd9e116..433c6960 100644
--- a/src-opam/linux.ml
+++ b/src-opam/linux.ml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ module Apk = struct
   let dev_packages ?extra () =
     install
       "build-base patch tar ca-certificates git rsync curl sudo bash \
-       libx11-dev nano coreutils xz libexecinfo-dev ncurses-dev%s"
+       libx11-dev nano coreutils xz ncurses-dev%s"
       (match extra with None -> "" | Some x -> " " ^ x)
 
   let add_user ?uid ?gid ?(sudo = false) username =