diff --git a/lucene/test-framework/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/TestCompressingTermVectorsFormat.java b/lucene/test-framework/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/TestCompressingTermVectorsFormat.java
index 7cfbe21a6f2..cde93db1b7e 100644
--- a/lucene/test-framework/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/TestCompressingTermVectorsFormat.java
+++ b/lucene/test-framework/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/TestCompressingTermVectorsFormat.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class TestCompressingTermVectorsFormat extends BaseTermVectorsFormatTestC
     // by this test.
     iwConf.setCodec(CompressingCodec.randomInstance(random(), 4*1024, 100, false, 8));
     IndexWriter iw = new IndexWriter(dir, iwConf);
-    DirectoryReader ir = DirectoryReader.open(iw, true);
+    DirectoryReader ir = DirectoryReader.open(iw);
     for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
       Document doc = new Document();
       FieldType ft = new FieldType(TextField.TYPE_NOT_STORED);
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/StandardIndexReaderFactory.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/StandardIndexReaderFactory.java
index 8a237889b6c..d44cfcb8ca2 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/StandardIndexReaderFactory.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/StandardIndexReaderFactory.java
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ public class StandardIndexReaderFactory extends IndexReaderFactory {
 
   @Override
   public DirectoryReader newReader(IndexWriter writer, SolrCore core) throws IOException {
-    return DirectoryReader.open(writer, true);
+    return DirectoryReader.open(writer);
   }
 }
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/core/AlternateDirectoryTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/core/AlternateDirectoryTest.java
index d7158067e2b..cf8d7c65f06 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/core/AlternateDirectoryTest.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/core/AlternateDirectoryTest.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class AlternateDirectoryTest extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
     @Override
     public DirectoryReader newReader(IndexWriter writer, SolrCore core) throws IOException {
       TestIndexReaderFactory.newReaderCalled = true;
-      return DirectoryReader.open(writer, true);
+      return DirectoryReader.open(writer);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestStressLucene.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestStressLucene.java
index f8f287d8916..94cf300ed93 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestStressLucene.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/TestStressLucene.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public class TestStressLucene extends TestRTGBase {
     // reader = IndexReader.open(dir);
     // make this reader an NRT reader from the start to avoid the first non-writer openIfChanged
     // to only opening at the last commit point.
-    reader = DirectoryReader.open(writer.w, true);
+    reader = DirectoryReader.open(writer.w);
 
     for (int i=0; i<nWriteThreads; i++) {
       Thread thread = new Thread("WRITER"+i) {