diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 7a4a86dab6e..0011c766c3d 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -37,12 +37,7 @@ Upgrading from Solr 6.x
 * HttpSolrClient#setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost and
   HttpSolrClient#setMaxTotalConnections have been removed. These now default very
   high and can only be changed via param when creating an HttpClient instance.
-
-Bug Fixes
-----------------------
-* SOLR-9262: Connection and read timeouts are being ignored by UpdateShardHandler after SOLR-4509.
-  (Mark Miller, shalin)
-
+  
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
index 30e31cac6b1..5cc77d2ecc9 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
@@ -60,19 +60,8 @@ public class UpdateShardHandler {
     }
 
     ModifiableSolrParams clientParams = new ModifiableSolrParams();
-    if (cfg != null)  {
-      clientParams.set(HttpClientUtil.PROP_SO_TIMEOUT, cfg.getDistributedSocketTimeout());
-      clientParams.set(HttpClientUtil.PROP_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, cfg.getDistributedConnectionTimeout());
-    }
+    log.info("Creating UpdateShardHandler HTTP client with params: {}", clientParams);
     client = HttpClientUtil.createClient(clientParams, clientConnectionManager);
-
-    // following is done only for logging complete configuration.
-    // The maxConnections and maxConnectionsPerHost have already been specified on the connection manager
-    if (cfg != null)  {
-      clientParams.set(HttpClientUtil.PROP_MAX_CONNECTIONS, cfg.getMaxUpdateConnections());
-      clientParams.set(HttpClientUtil.PROP_MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOST, cfg.getMaxUpdateConnectionsPerHost());
-    }
-    log.info("Created UpdateShardHandler HTTP client with params: {}", clientParams);
   }
   
   public HttpClient getHttpClient() {