diff --git a/archiva-modules/plugins/metadata-store-cassandra/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/plugins/metadata-store-cassandra/pom.xml
index f7b17c018..87acba6f4 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/plugins/metadata-store-cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/plugins/metadata-store-cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>cassandra-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-1</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>start-cassandra</id>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dd2109157..8ab11cc8e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1914,17 +1914,6 @@
         <enabled>true</enabled>
       </snapshots>
     </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
-      <name>Apache Snapshots</name>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
   </repositories>
   <pluginRepositories>
     <pluginRepository>
@@ -1949,17 +1938,6 @@
         <enabled>true</enabled>
       </snapshots>
     </pluginRepository>
-    <pluginRepository>
-      <id>mojo.snapshots</id>
-      <name>Codehaus Mojo Snapshots</name>
-      <url>https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </pluginRepository>
   </pluginRepositories>
 
 </project>