diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm64/use.stable.mask b/profiles/arch/arm64/use.stable.mask
index a97dce3a8c01e..4835983184613 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/arm64/use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/arm64/use.stable.mask
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 #
 # This file requires eapi 5 or later. New entries go on top.
 # Please use the same syntax as in use.mask
 
+# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (18 Feb 2018)
+# sys-apps/systemd is not stable on arm64.
+systemd
+
 # Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> (24 Dec 2017)
 # dev-libs/libressl not marked stable yet
 libressl