diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/releases/v0.7.2.rst b/docs/source/whatsnew/releases/v0.7.2.rst
index 594f6935..77b50a48 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/releases/v0.7.2.rst
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/releases/v0.7.2.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
-- Bump aiohttp from 3.13.13 to 3.13.4 (:pull:`324`)
+- Move ``pre-commit`` from core install requirements to the optional development
+  extras (``dev = ["pre-commit"]``), reducing runtime dependency footprint.
+  (:issue:`341`, :pull:`347`)
+- Bump aiohttp from 3.13.3 to 3.14.1. (:pull:`344`)
+
 
 
 Contributors
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3b1d497a..2db9bae5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "tables",
     "tqdm",
     "xarray",
-    "pre-commit",
     "sympy",
     "zarr",
     "jupytext",
@@ -85,6 +84,9 @@ books = [
 sam = [
     "NREL-PySAM",
 ]
+dev= [
+    "pre-commit",
+]
 all = [
     "pvdeg[docs,test,books,sam]",
 ]