diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6d5ed89e..32253de8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ubuntu-core-initramfs (66.8) jammy; urgency=medium
+
+  * Set linux-firmware as recommended package
+
+ -- Ondrej Kubik <ondrej.kubik@canonical.com>  Fri, 02 Aug 2024 13:30:44 +0100
+
 ubuntu-core-initramfs (66.7) jammy; urgency=medium
 
   * No change rebuild to take latest versions of packages in
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bf6d4401..6ed9686b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ Homepage: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-core-initramfs
 
 Package: ubuntu-core-initramfs
 Architecture: amd64 arm64 armhf riscv64
-Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, dracut-core (>= 051-1), zstd, sbsigntool, snapd (>= 2.50+20.04), linux-firmware, llvm, kcapi-tools
+Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, dracut-core (>= 051-1), zstd, sbsigntool, snapd (>= 2.50+20.04), llvm, kcapi-tools
+Recommends: linux-firmware
 Description: standard embedded initrd
  Standard embedded initrd implementation to be used with Ubuntu Core
  systems. Currently targetting creating BLS Type2 like binaries.