diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 3a58b05fdc..09635e8331 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 4.0-alpha5
+ * Include DROPPED_COLUMNS in schema digest computation (CASSANDRA-15843)
  * Fix Cassandra restart from rpm install (CASSANDRA-15830)
  * Improve handling of 2i initialization failures (CASSANDRA-13606)
  * Add completion_ratio column to sstable_tasks virtual table (CASANDRA-15759)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/SchemaKeyspace.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/SchemaKeyspace.java
index 76bda0fade..a10156c43d 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/SchemaKeyspace.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/SchemaKeyspace.java
@@ -355,11 +355,6 @@ public final class SchemaKeyspace
         Digest digest = Digest.forSchema();
         for (String table : ALL)
         {
-            // Due to CASSANDRA-11050 we want to exclude DROPPED_COLUMNS for schema digest computation. We can and
-            // should remove that in the next major release (so C* 4.0).
-            if (table.equals(DROPPED_COLUMNS))
-                continue;
-
             ReadCommand cmd = getReadCommandForTableSchema(table);
             try (ReadExecutionController executionController = cmd.executionController();
                  PartitionIterator schema = cmd.executeInternal(executionController))