diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java
index c65bba12d8..9c99719df7 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ public class DefaultMavenProjectBuilder
                 {
                     // use default policy (enabled, daily update, warn on bad checksum)
                     ArtifactRepositoryPolicy policy = new ArtifactRepositoryPolicy();
+                    // TODO: re-enable [MNG-798/865]
+                    policy.setUpdatePolicy( ArtifactRepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_NEVER );
 
                     if ( policy.checkOutOfDate( new Date( file.lastModified() ) ) )
                     {