diff --git a/base/sysimg.jl b/base/sysimg.jl
index f5a7fb22bf2bd..79f01a0e9a1d2 100644
--- a/base/sysimg.jl
+++ b/base/sysimg.jl
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ let
         :InteractiveUtils,
         :LibGit2,
         :Profile,
+        :SparseArrays,
         :UUIDs,
 
         # 3-depth packages
diff --git a/test/precompile.jl b/test/precompile.jl
index c23fffb663088..ac2c63ff7af08 100644
--- a/test/precompile.jl
+++ b/test/precompile.jl
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ precompile_test_harness(false) do dir
                  :LazyArtifacts, :LibCURL, :LibCURL_jll, :LibGit2, :Libdl, :LinearAlgebra,
                  :Logging, :Markdown, :Mmap, :MozillaCACerts_jll, :NetworkOptions, :OpenBLAS_jll, :Pkg, :Printf,
                  :Profile, :p7zip_jll, :REPL, :Random, :SHA, :Serialization, :SharedArrays, :Sockets,
-                 :TOML, :Tar, :Test, :UUIDs, :Unicode,
+                 :SparseArrays, :TOML, :Tar, :Test, :UUIDs, :Unicode,
                  :nghttp2_jll]
             ),
         )