diff --git a/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultRequestDirector.java b/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultRequestDirector.java
index 960bb8aaa..e81ca3ff5 100644
--- a/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultRequestDirector.java
+++ b/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultRequestDirector.java
@@ -384,8 +384,6 @@ public class DefaultRequestDirector implements RequestDirector {
                         targetAuthState);
                 context.setAttribute(ClientContext.PROXY_AUTH_STATE,
                         proxyAuthState);
-                context.setAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST,
-                        wrapper);
 
                 // Run request protocol interceptors
                 requestExec.preProcess(wrapper, httpProcessor, context);
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c861bdd3c..e15e9658a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-    <httpcore.version>4.0-beta3</httpcore.version>
+    <httpcore.version>4.0</httpcore.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.1</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.3</commons-codec.version>
     <mime4j.version>0.5</mime4j.version>