diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index a95ded8af1cf62687ad161dee24fa3ea7de2f58b..741403af009841ae3df68ad811dd6f70282c5c2b 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment:
     - 'danger/**/*'
     - 'db/**/*'
     - 'ee/**/*'
-    - 'lib/gitlab/**/*'
     - 'lib/tasks/**/*'
     - 'qa/**/*'
     - 'rubocop/**/*'
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/frozen-string-lib-rubocop.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/frozen-string-lib-rubocop.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9fe342e251b8a66e0f88439a1862311d9e5cb112
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/frozen-string-lib-rubocop.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Enable Rubocop on lib/gitlab
+merge_request:
+author: gfyoung
+type: other