diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index ac0834f99..7ef4c18fe 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
 
   <release version="3.10" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="TBD">
     <action issue="LANG-1450" type="fix" dev="chtompki">Generate javadoc jar on build.</action>
-    <action issue="LANG-1455" type="add" dev="ggregory">Add a DaemonThreadFactory.</action>
   </release>
 
   <release version="3.9" date="2019-04-09" description="New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 8, supports Java 9, 10, 11">
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactory.java
deleted file mode 100644
index b8e4b17c6..000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactory.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent;
-
-import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
-
-/**
- * A {@link ThreadFactory} that produces daemon threads.
- *
- * @since 3.10
- */
-public class DaemonThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory {
-
-    private static final String FORMAT = "%s-%s";
-    private final String namePrefix;
-    private final AtomicInteger threadCount = new AtomicInteger(0);
-
-    public DaemonThreadFactory() {
-        this(DaemonThreadFactory.class.getSimpleName());
-    }
-
-    public DaemonThreadFactory(final String prefix) {
-        this.namePrefix = prefix;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public Thread newThread(final Runnable runnable) {
-        if (runnable == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-        final String name = String.format(FORMAT, this.namePrefix, this.threadCount.incrementAndGet());
-        final Thread thread = new Thread(runnable, name);
-        thread.setDaemon(true);
-        if (thread.getPriority() != Thread.NORM_PRIORITY) {
-            thread.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY);
-        }
-        return thread;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactoryTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactoryTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 07203cd15..000000000
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/concurrent/DaemonThreadFactoryTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent;
-
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-
-public class DaemonThreadFactoryTest {
-
-    private static Runnable NOOP_RUNNABLE = new Runnable() {
-
-        @Override
-        public void run() {
-            // noop
-
-        }
-    };
-
-    @Test
-    public void testThreadFactory() {
-        final Thread thread = new DaemonThreadFactory().newThread(NOOP_RUNNABLE);
-        Assertions.assertTrue(thread.isDaemon());
-        final String name = thread.getName();
-        Assertions.assertTrue(name.startsWith("DaemonThreadFactory-"), name);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void testThreadFactoryPrefix() {
-        final String expectedName = DaemonThreadFactoryTest.class.getSimpleName();
-        final Thread thread = new DaemonThreadFactory(expectedName).newThread(NOOP_RUNNABLE);
-        Assertions.assertTrue(thread.isDaemon());
-        final String name = thread.getName();
-        Assertions.assertTrue(name.startsWith(expectedName + "-"), name);
-    }
-}