diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
index cc461f4cfcb..25d4a745339 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ public class DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory
   /** Creates a new DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory */
   public DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory(Map<String, String> args) {
     super(args);
-    assureMatchVersion();
     dictFile = require(args, "dictionary");
     minWordSize = getInt(args, "minWordSize", CompoundWordTokenFilterBase.DEFAULT_MIN_WORD_SIZE);
     minSubwordSize = getInt(args, "minSubwordSize", CompoundWordTokenFilterBase.DEFAULT_MIN_SUBWORD_SIZE);
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
index d4b04f4b2ed..84791827851 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/compound/HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory.java
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ public class HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactor
   /** Creates a new HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory */
   public HyphenationCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory(Map<String, String> args) {
     super(args);
-    assureMatchVersion();
     dictFile = get(args, "dictionary");
     encoding = get(args, "encoding");
     hypFile = require(args, "hyphenator");
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/CapitalizationFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/CapitalizationFilterFactory.java
index 8159d8affd1..cc343914946 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/CapitalizationFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/CapitalizationFilterFactory.java
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ public class CapitalizationFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory {
   /** Creates a new CapitalizationFilterFactory */
   public CapitalizationFilterFactory(Map<String, String> args) {
     super(args);
-    assureMatchVersion();
     boolean ignoreCase = getBoolean(args, KEEP_IGNORE_CASE, false);
     Set<String> k = getSet(args, KEEP);
     if (k != null) {
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/StemmerOverrideFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/StemmerOverrideFilterFactory.java
index b56fe763cb8..450af5c56e5 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/StemmerOverrideFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/StemmerOverrideFilterFactory.java
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ public class StemmerOverrideFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory implements
   @Override
   public void inform(ResourceLoader loader) throws IOException {
     if (dictionaryFiles != null) {
-      assureMatchVersion();
       List<String> files = splitFileNames(dictionaryFiles);
       if (files.size() > 0) {
         StemmerOverrideFilter.Builder builder = new StemmerOverrideFilter.Builder(ignoreCase);
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/WordDelimiterFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/WordDelimiterFilterFactory.java
index 9ab83c8ff66..a7bd468672f 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/WordDelimiterFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/WordDelimiterFilterFactory.java
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ public class WordDelimiterFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory implements Re
   /** Creates a new WordDelimiterFilterFactory */
   public WordDelimiterFilterFactory(Map<String, String> args) {
     super(args);
-    assureMatchVersion();
     int flags = 0;
     if (getInt(args, "generateWordParts", 1) != 0) {
       flags |= GENERATE_WORD_PARTS;
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/SynonymFilterFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/SynonymFilterFactory.java
index c5afd87bf45..c8b01c59e04 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/SynonymFilterFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/SynonymFilterFactory.java
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ public class SynonymFilterFactory extends TokenFilterFactory implements Resource
     }
 
     if (tokenizerFactory != null) {
-      assureMatchVersion();
       tokArgs.put("luceneMatchVersion", getLuceneMatchVersion().toString());
       for (Iterator<String> itr = args.keySet().iterator(); itr.hasNext();) {
         String key = itr.next();
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/util/AbstractAnalysisFactory.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/util/AbstractAnalysisFactory.java
index 9c756510754..bc48531ae5a 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/util/AbstractAnalysisFactory.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/util/AbstractAnalysisFactory.java
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractAnalysisFactory {
     originalArgs = Collections.unmodifiableMap(new HashMap<>(args));
     String version = get(args, LUCENE_MATCH_VERSION_PARAM);
     if (version == null) {
-      luceneMatchVersion = null;
+      luceneMatchVersion = Version.LATEST;
     } else {
       try {
         luceneMatchVersion = Version.parseLeniently(version);
@@ -85,16 +85,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractAnalysisFactory {
     return originalArgs;
   }
 
-   /** this method can be called in the {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.TokenizerFactory#create()}
-   * or {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.TokenFilterFactory#create(org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream)} methods,
-   * to inform user, that for this factory a {@link #luceneMatchVersion} is required */
-  protected final void assureMatchVersion() {
-    if (luceneMatchVersion == null) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Configuration Error: Factory '" + this.getClass().getName() +
-        "' needs a 'luceneMatchVersion' parameter");
-    }
-  }
-
   public final Version getLuceneMatchVersion() {
     return this.luceneMatchVersion;
   }
@@ -241,7 +231,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractAnalysisFactory {
    */
   protected final CharArraySet getWordSet(ResourceLoader loader,
       String wordFiles, boolean ignoreCase) throws IOException {
-    assureMatchVersion();
     List<String> files = splitFileNames(wordFiles);
     CharArraySet words = null;
     if (files.size() > 0) {
@@ -267,7 +256,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractAnalysisFactory {
    * except the input is in snowball format. */
   protected final CharArraySet getSnowballWordSet(ResourceLoader loader,
       String wordFiles, boolean ignoreCase) throws IOException {
-    assureMatchVersion();
     List<String> files = splitFileNames(wordFiles);
     CharArraySet words = null;
     if (files.size() > 0) {