The import java.io.Serializable is never used.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem.java
index 99203b3..fd82ac7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 
 /**