diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8d462a..b9cc68e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   actually ran at the default level 1, producing a partial graph). Passing
   `--graphs` below `-a 3` is also now consistently rejected even when the
   value equals the default.
+- **`numpy` and `pandas` are no longer dependencies** (#124): neither was ever
+  imported by the analyzer, but both were declared in `[project].dependencies`
+  with tight upper caps (`numpy<1.24` below Python 3.11, `numpy<2.0` above it).
+  The caps forced resolution onto numpy releases with no prebuilt wheel for some
+  targets — Red Hat UBI images in particular — so installation fell back to
+  building numpy from source and failed. On Python 3.11+ numpy is now absent
+  from the resolved tree entirely (`ray` 2.55 does not require it). On Python
+  3.9/3.10 `ray==2.0.0` still requires numpy transitively — that pin is
+  untouched — but with the cap gone it resolves to numpy 2.0.2, which ships
+  cp39 manylinux wheels for x86_64 and aarch64, so the source build stops
+  happening there too.
 
 ## [1.1.1] - 2026-07-27
 
diff --git a/packaging/homebrew/generate_formula.sh b/packaging/homebrew/generate_formula.sh
index 70846cf..56f3977 100755
--- a/packaging/homebrew/generate_formula.sh
+++ b/packaging/homebrew/generate_formula.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # Unlike the codeanalyzer-typescript sibling -- which ships a single self-contained
 # binary that the formula just downloads -- codeanalyzer-python is a pure-Python
-# package published to PyPI with heavy native dependencies (ray, pandas, numpy).
+# package published to PyPI with a heavy native dependency (ray).
 # Vendoring every transitive dependency as a Homebrew `resource` is impractical
 # (ray is not buildable from an sdist), and pip-installing at build time is blocked
 # by Homebrew's network sandbox.
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ class CodeanalyzerPython < Formula
   version "${VERSION}"
   license "Apache-2.0"
 
-  # codeanalyzer-python is a pure-Python PyPI package with heavy native deps
-  # (ray, pandas, numpy). Rather than vendor every transitive dependency as a
+  # codeanalyzer-python is a pure-Python PyPI package with a heavy native dep
+  # (ray). Rather than vendor every transitive dependency as a
   # Homebrew resource, install the pinned PyPI release as an isolated uv tool;
   # uv resolves and caches the environment on first run.
   depends_on "uv"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3336aab..6789093 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ dependencies = [
     # networkx
     "networkx>=2.6.0,<3.2.0; python_version < '3.11'",
     "networkx>=3.0.0,<4.0.0; python_version >= '3.11'",
-    # pandas
-    "pandas>=1.3.0,<2.0.0; python_version < '3.11'",
-    "pandas>=2.0.0,<3.0.0; python_version >= '3.11'",
-    # numpy
-    "numpy>=1.21.0,<1.24.0; python_version < '3.11'",
-    "numpy>=1.24.0,<2.0.0; python_version >= '3.11' and python_version < '3.12'",
-    "numpy>=1.26.0,<2.0.0; python_version >= '3.12'",
     # pydantic
     "pydantic>=1.8.0,<2.0.0; python_version < '3.11'",
     "pydantic>=2.0.0,<3.0.0; python_version >= '3.11'",