diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 54a5bf97..e52acd65 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 * [CHANGE] Change default config: distributors, rulers, queriers, query-frontend, nginx and compactors can be disrupted until 30%
 * [CHANGE] Remove startup probes from compactors from default values. It's not recommended in general #542
 * [CHANGE] Use default value for num_tokens in ingester configuration #544
-* [DEPENDENCY] Update kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar docker tag to v1.30.5 #531
 * [BUGFIX] Fix discovering memcached instances #551
+* [BUGFIX] Fix restarting query-schedulers when config changes #559
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Run overrides-exporter with high availability #557
+* [DEPENDENCY] Update kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar docker tag to v1.30.5 #531
 
 ## 2.6.0 / 2025-05-07
 
diff --git a/templates/query-scheduler/query-scheduler-dep.yaml b/templates/query-scheduler/query-scheduler-dep.yaml
index 86154bbb..805c4159 100644
--- a/templates/query-scheduler/query-scheduler-dep.yaml
+++ b/templates/query-scheduler/query-scheduler-dep.yaml
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ spec:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
         {{- end }}
       annotations:
-      {{- if .Values.useExternalConfig }}
-        checksum/config: {{ .Values.externalConfigVersion }}
-      {{- else }}
-        checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/secret.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
-      {{- end }}
+        checksum/config: {{ include "cortex.configChecksum" . }}
       {{- with .Values.query_scheduler.podAnnotations }}
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
       {{- end }}