diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3660947b7..2f4646244 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ jobs:
         exclude:
           - isMaster: false
             profile: "singularity"
+          - NXF_VER: "latest-everything"
+            profile: "singularity"
     steps:
       - name: Check out pipeline code
         uses: actions/checkout@0ad4b8fadaa221de15dcec353f45205ec38ea70b # v4
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fc825f839..d87588c9c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Special thanks to the following for their contributions to the release:
 - [PR #1434](https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/pull/1434) - Default registry is quay.io for all containers
 - [PR #1437](https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/pull/1437) - Update software dependencies
 - [PR #1437](https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/pull/1437) - Remove conda from test matrix
+- [PR #1440](https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/pull/1440) - Further reduce matrix
 
 ### Software dependencies