diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e59262250..c9fc937f4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -112,25 +112,6 @@
     <commons.release.version>4.5.0-M3</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.next>4.5.0-M4</commons.release.next>
     <commons.release.desc>(Requires Java 8 or above)</commons.release.desc>
-    <!-- Previous 4.2 release on Java 7 -->
-    <commons.release.2.version>4.2</commons.release.2.version>
-    <commons.release.2.desc>(Requires Java 7 or above)</commons.release.2.desc>
-    <!-- Override generated name -->
-    <commons.release.2.name>commons-collections4-${commons.release.2.version}</commons.release.2.name>
-    <!-- Previous 4.1 release on Java 6-->
-    <commons.release.3.version>4.1</commons.release.3.version>
-    <commons.release.3.desc>(Requires Java 6 or above)</commons.release.3.desc>
-    <!-- Override generated name -->
-    <commons.release.3.name>commons-collections4-${commons.release.3.version}</commons.release.3.name>
-    <!-- Previous 3.x release on Java 1.3 -->
-    <commons.release.4.version>3.2.2</commons.release.4.version>
-    <commons.release.4.desc>(Requires Java 1.3 or above)</commons.release.4.desc>
-    <!-- Override generated name -->
-    <commons.release.4.name>commons-collections-${commons.release.4.version}</commons.release.4.name>
-    <!-- Older release has sha256 only -->
-    <commons.release.4.hash>sha256</commons.release.4.hash>
-    <!-- This is needed until CP49 is released -->
-    <commons.release.4.binary.suffix>-bin</commons.release.4.binary.suffix>
     <commons.jira.id>COLLECTIONS</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310465</commons.jira.pid>
     <!-- The RC version used in the staging repository URL. -->