diff --git a/maven-wrapper/pom.xml b/maven-wrapper/pom.xml
index 610117e451..1b8dc97c44 100644
--- a/maven-wrapper/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-wrapper/pom.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>io.takari.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>provisio-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>0.1.50</version>
+        <!--  careful - upgrade to 0.1.50 causes problem with extraction of tar.gz
+        instead of into .mvn/warpper it looses the .mvn path and extracts to warpper -->
+        <version>0.1.46</version>
         <extensions>true</extensions>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>