diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8f9528b5f..296a27484 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## **[Unreleased]**
 
+- [#1098](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1098) Remove `backend::Backend` from `wasmer_runtime_core`
 - [#1097](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1097) Move inline breakpoint outside of runtime backend
 - [#1095](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1095) Update to cranelift 0.52.
 - [#1092](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1092) Add `get_utf8_string_with_nul` to `WasmPtr` to read nul-terminated strings from memory.
diff --git a/lib/llvm-backend/src/code.rs b/lib/llvm-backend/src/code.rs
index 871d5d48f..4333dbbf0 100644
--- a/lib/llvm-backend/src/code.rs
+++ b/lib/llvm-backend/src/code.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use wasmer_runtime_core::{
-    backend::{Backend, CacheGen, CompilerConfig, Token},
+    backend::{CacheGen, CompilerConfig, Token},
     cache::{Artifact, Error as CacheError},
     codegen::*,
     memory::MemoryType,