diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index ceda97964c..271d36b790 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -254,27 +254,6 @@
         </plugins>
     </reporting>
 
-    <profiles>
-        <profile>
-            <!--
-                A profile used implicitly by the release plugin.  Here we use it to enable documentation building
-                as well as execution of the assembly plugin (to build the SourceForge dist).
-            -->
-            <id>release-profile</id>
-            <modules>
-                <module>documentation</module>
-            </modules>
-        </profile>
-
-        <!-- seperate profile for documentation activation -->
-        <profile>
-            <id>docs</id>
-            <modules>
-                <module>documentation</module>
-            </modules>
-        </profile>
-    </profiles>
-
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>