diff --git a/.sync.yml b/.sync.yml
index 5baf54b1..afecd940 100644
--- a/.sync.yml
+++ b/.sync.yml
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@ appveyor.yml:
   delete: true
 .rubocop.yml:
   include_todos: true
-Gemfile:
-  optional:
-    ":development":
-    - gem: github_changelog_generator
-      version: '= 1.15.2'
 spec/spec_helper.rb:
   mock_with: ":rspec"
   coverage_report: true
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 86e337ad..ca0e773e 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ group :development do
   gem "voxpupuli-puppet-lint-plugins", '~> 5.0', require: false
   gem "facterdb", '~> 1.18',                     require: false
   gem "metadata-json-lint", '~> 3.0',            require: false
+  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 6.0',        require: false
   gem "rspec-puppet-facts", '~> 2.0',            require: false
   gem "codecov", '~> 0.2',                       require: false
   gem "dependency_checker", '~> 1.0.0',          require: false
@@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ group :development do
   gem "rubocop", '= 1.48.1',                     require: false
   gem "rubocop-performance", '= 1.16.0',         require: false
   gem "rubocop-rspec", '= 2.19.0',               require: false
+  gem "puppet-strings", '~> 4.0',                require: false
   gem "rb-readline", '= 0.5.5',                  require: false, platforms: [:mswin, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
-  gem "github_changelog_generator", '= 1.15.2',  require: false
 end
 group :system_tests do
   gem "puppet_litmus", '~> 1.0', require: false, platforms: [:ruby, :x64_mingw]
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ group :system_tests do
 end
 group :release_prep do
   gem "puppet-strings", '~> 4.0',         require: false
-  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 7.0', require: false
+  gem "puppetlabs_spec_helper", '~> 6.0', require: false
 end
 
 puppet_version = ENV['PUPPET_GEM_VERSION']
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 74415a96..77590fe6 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -4,85 +4,6 @@ require 'bundler'
 require 'puppet_litmus/rake_tasks' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'puppet_litmus'
 require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
 require 'puppet-syntax/tasks/puppet-syntax'
-require 'github_changelog_generator/task' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'github_changelog_generator'
 require 'puppet-strings/tasks' if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'puppet-strings'
 
-def changelog_user
-  return unless Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog"
-  returnVal = nil || JSON.load(File.read('metadata.json'))['author']
-  raise "unable to find the changelog_user in .sync.yml, or the author in metadata.json" if returnVal.nil?
-  puts "GitHubChangelogGenerator user:#{returnVal}"
-  returnVal
-end
-
-def changelog_project
-  return unless Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog"
-
-  returnVal = nil
-  returnVal ||= begin
-    metadata_source = JSON.load(File.read('metadata.json'))['source']
-    metadata_source_match = metadata_source && metadata_source.match(%r{.*\/([^\/]*?)(?:\.git)?\Z})
-
-    metadata_source_match && metadata_source_match[1]
-  end
-
-  raise "unable to find the changelog_project in .sync.yml or calculate it from the source in metadata.json" if returnVal.nil?
-
-  puts "GitHubChangelogGenerator project:#{returnVal}"
-  returnVal
-end
-
-def changelog_future_release
-  return unless Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog"
-  returnVal = "v%s" % JSON.load(File.read('metadata.json'))['version']
-  raise "unable to find the future_release (version) in metadata.json" if returnVal.nil?
-  puts "GitHubChangelogGenerator future_release:#{returnVal}"
-  returnVal
-end
-
 PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_relative')
-
-
-if Gem.loaded_specs.key? 'github_changelog_generator'
-  GitHubChangelogGenerator::RakeTask.new :changelog do |config|
-    raise "Set CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable eg 'export CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN=valid_token_here'" if Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? "changelog" and ENV['CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN'].nil?
-    config.user = "#{changelog_user}"
-    config.project = "#{changelog_project}"
-    config.future_release = "#{changelog_future_release}"
-    config.exclude_labels = ['maintenance']
-    config.header = "# Change log\n\nAll notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org)."
-    config.add_pr_wo_labels = true
-    config.issues = false
-    config.merge_prefix = "### UNCATEGORIZED PRS; LABEL THEM ON GITHUB"
-    config.configure_sections = {
-      "Changed" => {
-        "prefix" => "### Changed",
-        "labels" => ["backwards-incompatible"],
-      },
-      "Added" => {
-        "prefix" => "### Added",
-        "labels" => ["enhancement", "feature"],
-      },
-      "Fixed" => {
-        "prefix" => "### Fixed",
-        "labels" => ["bug", "documentation", "bugfix"],
-      },
-    }
-  end
-else
-  desc 'Generate a Changelog from GitHub'
-  task :changelog do
-    raise <<EOM
-The changelog tasks depends on recent features of the github_changelog_generator gem.
-Please manually add it to your .sync.yml for now, and run `pdk update`:
----
-Gemfile:
-  optional:
-    ':development':
-      - gem: 'github_changelog_generator'
-        version: '~> 1.15'
-        condition: "Gem::Version.new(RUBY_VERSION.dup) >= Gem::Version.new('2.3.0')"
-EOM
-  end
-end
-
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index 0a58b448..b50a98a0 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -81,6 +81,6 @@
     }
   ],
   "template-url": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk-templates.git#main",
-  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g01c6a19",
+  "template-ref": "heads/main-0-g79a2f93",
   "pdk-version": "3.0.0"
 }