diff --git a/pkgimage.mk b/pkgimage.mk
index 13a27d83dfed8..6f90911d4a836 100644
--- a/pkgimage.mk
+++ b/pkgimage.mk
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ $(eval $(call sysimg_builder,libblastrampoline_jll,Artifacts Libdl))
 $(eval $(call sysimg_builder,OpenBLAS_jll,Artifacts Libdl))
 $(eval $(call sysimg_builder,Markdown,Base64))
 $(eval $(call sysimg_builder,Printf,Unicode))
-$(eval $(call sysimg_builder,Random,Serialization SHA))
+$(eval $(call sysimg_builder,Random,SHA))
 $(eval $(call sysimg_builder,Tar,ArgTools,SHA))
 $(eval $(call pkgimg_builder,DelimitedFiles,Mmap))
 
diff --git a/stdlib/Random/Project.toml b/stdlib/Random/Project.toml
index 199dcab940c86..f32fc3e2a4f84 100644
--- a/stdlib/Random/Project.toml
+++ b/stdlib/Random/Project.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ name = "Random"
 uuid = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 
 [deps]
-Serialization = "9e88b42a-f829-5b0c-bbe9-9e923198166b"
 SHA = "ea8e919c-243c-51af-8825-aaa63cd721ce"
 
 [extras]