diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 689062fa0..d86e85dc0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Release 1.5 (in development)
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 
+* LaTeX package fancybox is not longer a dependency of sphinx.sty
+
 Features added
 --------------
 
diff --git a/sphinx/texinputs/sphinx.sty b/sphinx/texinputs/sphinx.sty
index 9c289a578..175344ad9 100644
--- a/sphinx/texinputs/sphinx.sty
+++ b/sphinx/texinputs/sphinx.sty
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 \@ifclassloaded{memoir}{}{\RequirePackage{fancyhdr}}
 
 \RequirePackage{textcomp}
-% fancybox not used anymore and will be removed at Sphinx-1.5
-\RequirePackage{fancybox}
 \RequirePackage{titlesec}
 \RequirePackage{tabulary}
 \RequirePackage{makeidx}