diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 328f742f748..8d1eb2106f8 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ Build
 
 * LUCENE-7653: Update randomizedtesting to version 2.5.0. (Dawid Weiss)
 
+* LUCENE-7665: Remove grouping dependency from the join module.
+  (Martijn van Groningen)
+
 Other
 
 * LUCENE-7666: Fix typos in lucene-join package info javadoc.
diff --git a/lucene/join/build.xml b/lucene/join/build.xml
index b5360c4c7b9..c411dbe4649 100644
--- a/lucene/join/build.xml
+++ b/lucene/join/build.xml
@@ -24,25 +24,4 @@
 
   <import file="../module-build.xml"/>
 
-  <path id="classpath">
-    <pathelement path="${grouping.jar}"/>
-    <path refid="base.classpath"/>
-  </path>
-
-  <path id="run.classpath">
-    <path refid="classpath"/>
-    <pathelement location="${build.dir}/classes/java"/>
-  </path>
-
-  <target name="init" depends="module-build.init,jar-grouping"/>
-
-  <target name="javadocs" depends="javadocs-grouping,compile-core,check-javadocs-uptodate"
-          unless="javadocs-uptodate-${name}">
-    <invoke-module-javadoc>
-      <links>
-        <link href="../grouping"/>
-      </links>
-    </invoke-module-javadoc>
-  </target>
-
 </project>