diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
index 5eb967ecf..4e201b764 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -1014,7 +1014,10 @@
             <archiva.javascriptLog>${archiva.javascriptLog}</archiva.javascriptLog>
             <archiva.logMissingI18n>${archiva.logMissingI18n}</archiva.logMissingI18n>
             <archiva.tmp.group.index.ttl>${archiva.groupIndexTtl}</archiva.tmp.group.index.ttl>
+            <!--
+            not needed as we use asyncLogger in configuration
             <Log4jContextSelector>org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector</Log4jContextSelector>
+            -->
           </systemProperties>
           <additionalClasspathDirs>
             <additionalClasspathDir>${basedir}/src/test/tomcat</additionalClasspathDir>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9f6f80f47..42271ad5a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     <redback.spring-utils.version>2.0</redback.spring-utils.version>
     <redback.taskqueue.version>2.0</redback.taskqueue.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.0-beta5</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.0-beta6-SNAPSHOT</log4j.version>
 
     <spring.version>3.2.2.RELEASE</spring.version>