diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
index c4aa23fc2a6..44fae80a020 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ public class QueryPhase implements SearchPhase {
         parseElements.put("query", new QueryParseElement());
         parseElements.put("queryBinary", new QueryBinaryParseElement());
         parseElements.put("query_binary", new QueryBinaryParseElement());
-        parseElements.put("filter", new PostFilterParseElement()); // For bw comp reason, should be removed in version 1.1
         parseElements.put("post_filter", new PostFilterParseElement());
         parseElements.put("postFilter", new PostFilterParseElement());
         parseElements.put("filterBinary", new FilterBinaryParseElement());