diff --git a/extensions/kafka-seven/pom.xml b/extensions/kafka-seven/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 26a595e0127..00000000000
--- a/extensions/kafka-seven/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Druid - a distributed column store.
-  ~ Copyright 2012 - 2015 Metamarkets Group Inc.
-  ~
-  ~ Licensed 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.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-    <groupId>io.druid.extensions</groupId>
-    <artifactId>druid-kafka-seven</artifactId>
-    <name>druid-kafka-seven</name>
-    <description>druid-kafka-seven</description>
-
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>io.druid</groupId>
-        <artifactId>druid</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    </parent>
-
-    <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.druid</groupId>
-            <artifactId>druid-api</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <!-- Kafka 0.7 is not on Maven Central, so you will have to
-                 replace this with your own Kafka 0.7 artifact -->
-            <groupId>kafka</groupId>
-            <artifactId>core-kafka</artifactId>
-            <version>0.7.2</version>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <!-- Tests -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenDruidModule.java b/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenDruidModule.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d0f7daeed56..00000000000
--- a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenDruidModule.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Druid - a distributed column store.
- * Copyright 2012 - 2015 Metamarkets Group Inc.
- *
- * Licensed 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 io.druid.firehose.kafka;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.NamedType;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
-import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
-import com.google.inject.Binder;
-import io.druid.initialization.DruidModule;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-/**
- */
-public class KafkaSevenDruidModule implements DruidModule
-{
-  @Override
-  public List<? extends Module> getJacksonModules()
-  {
-    return ImmutableList.of(
-        new SimpleModule("KafkaSevenFirehoseModule")
-            .registerSubtypes(
-                new NamedType(KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory.class, "kafka-0.7.2")
-            )
-    );
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public void configure(Binder binder)
-  {
-
-  }
-}
diff --git a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory.java b/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b31fc7c7df..00000000000
--- a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/java/io/druid/firehose/kafka/KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Druid - a distributed column store.
- * Copyright 2012 - 2015 Metamarkets Group Inc.
- *
- * Licensed 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 io.druid.firehose.kafka;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
-import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
-import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
-import com.metamx.common.logger.Logger;
-import io.druid.data.input.ByteBufferInputRowParser;
-import io.druid.data.input.Firehose;
-import io.druid.data.input.FirehoseFactory;
-import io.druid.data.input.InputRow;
-import kafka.consumer.Consumer;
-import kafka.consumer.ConsumerConfig;
-import kafka.consumer.KafkaStream;
-import kafka.javaapi.consumer.ConsumerConnector;
-import kafka.message.Message;
-import kafka.message.MessageAndMetadata;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Properties;
-import java.util.Set;
-
-/**
- */
-public class KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory implements FirehoseFactory<ByteBufferInputRowParser>
-{
-  private static final Logger log = new Logger(KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory.class);
-
-  private final Properties consumerProps;
-  private final String feed;
-
-  @JsonCreator
-  public KafkaSevenFirehoseFactory(
-      @JsonProperty("consumerProps") Properties consumerProps,
-      @JsonProperty("feed") String feed
-  )
-  {
-    this.consumerProps = consumerProps;
-    this.feed = feed;
-  }
-
-  @JsonProperty
-  public Properties getConsumerProps()
-  {
-    return consumerProps;
-  }
-
-  @JsonProperty
-  public String getFeed()
-  {
-    return feed;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public Firehose connect(final ByteBufferInputRowParser firehoseParser) throws IOException
-  {
-    Set<String> newDimExclus = Sets.union(
-        firehoseParser.getParseSpec().getDimensionsSpec().getDimensionExclusions(),
-        Sets.newHashSet("feed")
-    );
-    final ByteBufferInputRowParser theParser = firehoseParser.withParseSpec(
-        firehoseParser.getParseSpec()
-                      .withDimensionsSpec(
-                          firehoseParser.getParseSpec()
-                                        .getDimensionsSpec()
-                                        .withDimensionExclusions(
-                                            newDimExclus
-                                        )
-                      )
-    );
-
-    final ConsumerConnector connector = Consumer.createJavaConsumerConnector(new ConsumerConfig(consumerProps));
-
-    final Map<String, List<KafkaStream<Message>>> streams = connector.createMessageStreams(ImmutableMap.of(feed, 1));
-
-    final List<KafkaStream<Message>> streamList = streams.get(feed);
-    if (streamList == null || streamList.size() != 1) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
-    final KafkaStream<Message> stream = streamList.get(0);
-    final Iterator<MessageAndMetadata<Message>> iter = stream.iterator();
-
-    return new Firehose()
-    {
-      @Override
-      public boolean hasMore()
-      {
-        return iter.hasNext();
-      }
-
-      @Override
-      public InputRow nextRow()
-      {
-        final Message message = iter.next().message();
-
-        if (message == null) {
-          return null;
-        }
-
-        return parseMessage(message);
-      }
-
-      public InputRow parseMessage(Message message)
-      {
-        return theParser.parse(message.payload());
-      }
-
-      @Override
-      public Runnable commit()
-      {
-        return new Runnable()
-        {
-          @Override
-          public void run()
-          {
-                /*
-                 * This is actually not going to do exactly what we want, cause it
-      					 * will be called asynchronously after the persist is complete. So,
-      					 * it's going to commit that it's processed more than was actually
-      					 * persisted. This is unfortunate, but good enough for now. Should
-      					 * revisit along with an upgrade of our Kafka version.
-      					 */
-
-            log.info("committing offsets");
-            connector.commitOffsets();
-          }
-        };
-      }
-
-      @Override
-      public void close() throws IOException
-      {
-        connector.shutdown();
-      }
-    };
-  }
-}
diff --git a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.druid.initialization.DruidModule b/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.druid.initialization.DruidModule
deleted file mode 100644
index 04c38658083..00000000000
--- a/extensions/kafka-seven/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.druid.initialization.DruidModule
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-io.druid.firehose.kafka.KafkaSevenDruidModule
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c63b2cc6c48..73456ef8dda 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -92,9 +92,6 @@
         <module>extensions/cassandra-storage</module>
         <module>extensions/hdfs-storage</module>
         <module>extensions/s3-extensions</module>
-        <!-- kafka-seven extension is not built by default since
-             Kafka 0.7 is not available in Maven Central -->
-        <!-- <module>extensions/kafka&#45;seven</module> -->
         <module>extensions/kafka-eight</module>
         <module>extensions/kafka-eight-simpleConsumer</module>
         <module>extensions/rabbitmq</module>