diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 85bd2cb..557d116 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 - Doc: Update Readme with version numbers
 - update Code Owners to include the Heroku Buildpack Maintainers team
+- Clean up build log output
+
 - Add failcase for cache busting
 - Bugfix: Clearing pip dependencies
 - Correct ftp to https in vendored file
diff --git a/bin/steps/python b/bin/steps/python
index a5c1e12..f613c11 100755
--- a/bin/steps/python
+++ b/bin/steps/python
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ if [[ ! -f "$CACHE_DIR/.heroku/requirements.txt" ]]; then
   fi
 else
   # IF there IS a cached directory, check for differences with the new one
-  if ! diff "$BUILD_DIR/requirements.txt" "$CACHE_DIR/.heroku/requirements.txt"; then
+  if ! diff "$BUILD_DIR/requirements.txt" "$CACHE_DIR/.heroku/requirements.txt" &> /dev/null; then
     puts-step "Clearing cached dependencies"
     # if there are any differences, clear the Python cache
     # Installing Python over again does not take noticably more time