diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d2c118b072..a0d9b33c77 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ find_program(GIT NAMES git)
 
 ## Setup the package version based on git tags.
 set(PKG_VERSION_GIT_TAG_PREFIX "amdsmi_pkg_ver")
-get_package_version_number("24.7.1" ${PKG_VERSION_GIT_TAG_PREFIX} GIT)
+get_package_version_number("24.7.0" ${PKG_VERSION_GIT_TAG_PREFIX} GIT)
 message("Package version: ${PKG_VERSION_STR}")
 set(${AMD_SMI_LIBS_TARGET}_VERSION_MAJOR "${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR}")
 set(${AMD_SMI_LIBS_TARGET}_VERSION_MINOR "${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR}")
@@ -107,13 +107,6 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wformat=2 -fno-common -Wstrict-overflow
 # Intentionally leave out -Wsign-promo. It causes spurious warnings.
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Woverloaded-virtual -Wreorder")
 
-# Add CMAKE debug flags
-if ("${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" STREQUAL Release)
-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -O2")
-else ()
-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -ggdb -O0 -DDEBUG")
-endif ()
-
 set(COMMON_SRC_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src")
 set(ROCM_SRC_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/rocm_smi/src")
 set(AMDSMI_SRC_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/amd_smi")
@@ -261,7 +254,7 @@ install(
 add_subdirectory(goamdsmi_shim)
 
 #Debian package specific variables
-set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS "python3-argcomplete, libdrm-dev, python3-yaml")
+set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS "python3-argcomplete, libdrm-dev")
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_ASAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS ${CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS})
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_DEV_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS ${CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS})
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_DEPENDS "sudo, python3 (>= 3.6.8), python3-pip")
@@ -285,7 +278,7 @@ set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_SUGGESTS "python3-argcomplete")
 set(CPACK_RPM_DEV_PACKAGE_SUGGESTS ${CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_SUGGESTS})
 set(CPACK_RPM_ASAN_PACKAGE_SUGGESTS ${CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_SUGGESTS})
 # python version gated by rhel8 :(
-set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES "sudo, python3 >= 3.6.8, python3-pip, python3-PyYAML")
+set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES "sudo, python3 >= 3.6.8, python3-pip")
 set(CPACK_RPM_DEV_PACKAGE_REQUIRES ${CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES})
 set(CPACK_RPM_ASAN_PACKAGE_REQUIRES ${CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES})
 
diff --git a/amdsmi_cli/amdsmi_logger.py b/amdsmi_cli/amdsmi_logger.py
index a409d4f578..d52abdf1fb 100644
--- a/amdsmi_cli/amdsmi_logger.py
+++ b/amdsmi_cli/amdsmi_logger.py
@@ -25,20 +25,10 @@ import re
 import time
 from typing import Dict
 from enum import Enum
-import yaml
 import inspect
-
 from amdsmi_helpers import AMDSMIHelpers
 import amdsmi_cli_exceptions
 
-### Custom YAML Functions
-# Dumper class to preserve order of yaml.dump
-class CustomDumper(yaml.Dumper):
-    def represent_dict_preserve_order(self, data):
-        return self.represent_dict(data.items())
-def has_sort_keys_option(): # to check if sort_keys is available
-    return 'sort_keys' in inspect.signature(yaml.dump).parameters
-
 class AMDSMILogger():
     def __init__(self, format='human_readable', destination='stdout') -> None:
         self.output = {}
@@ -233,15 +223,8 @@ class AMDSMILogger():
 
         capitalized_json["AMDSMI_SPACING_REMOVAL"] = tabbed_dictionary
 
-        json_string = json.dumps(capitalized_json, indent=4)
-
-        if has_sort_keys_option():
-            yaml_data = yaml.safe_load(json_string)
-            yaml_output = yaml.dump(yaml_data, sort_keys=False, allow_unicode=True)
-        else:
-            CustomDumper.add_representer(dict, CustomDumper.represent_dict_preserve_order)
-            yaml_data = yaml.safe_load(json_string)
-            yaml_output = yaml.dump(yaml_data, Dumper=CustomDumper, allow_unicode=True, default_flow_style=False)
+        # Convert the capitalized JSON to a YAML-like string
+        yaml_output = self.custom_dump(capitalized_json)
 
         # Remove a key line if it is a spacer
         yaml_output = yaml_output.replace("AMDSMI_SPACING_REMOVAL:\n", "")
@@ -264,6 +247,19 @@ class AMDSMILogger():
 
         return clean_yaml_output
 
+    def custom_dump(self, data, indent=0):
+        """Converts a Python dictionary to a YAML-like string."""
+        yaml_string = ""
+        for key, value in data.items():
+            if isinstance(value, dict):
+                yaml_string += "  " * indent + f"{key}:\n" + self.custom_dump(value, indent + 1)
+            elif isinstance(value, list):
+                yaml_string += "  " * indent + f"{key}:\n"
+                for item in value:
+                    yaml_string += "  " * (indent + 1) + f"- {item}\n"
+            else:
+                yaml_string += "  " * indent + f"{key}: {value}\n"
+        return yaml_string
 
     def flatten_dict(self, target_dict, topology_override=False):
         """This will flatten a dictionary out to a single level of key value stores
diff --git a/py-interface/pyproject.toml.in b/py-interface/pyproject.toml.in
index 507faea358..93185b27e1 100644
--- a/py-interface/pyproject.toml.in
+++ b/py-interface/pyproject.toml.in
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ license = {file = "amdsmi/LICENSE"}
 readme = {file = "amdsmi/README.md", content-type = "text/markdown"}
 description = "AMDSMI Python LIB - AMD GPU Monitoring Library"
 requires-python = ">=3.6"
-dependencies = [
-    "PyYAML >= 3.0",
-]
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
 ]
diff --git a/py-interface/setup.py.in b/py-interface/setup.py.in
index 8aa2091a78..eb3e992f65 100644
--- a/py-interface/setup.py.in
+++ b/py-interface/setup.py.in
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ setup(
     description="AMDSMI Python LIB - AMD GPU Monitoring Library",
     url="https://github.com/ROCm/amdsmi",
     packages=find_packages(),
-    install_requires=[
-        "PyYAML>=3.0",
-    ],
     classifiers=[
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
     ],