diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7eaf8b5..c1b39c2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>maven-plugins</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-    <version>14</version>
+    <version>16</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>maven-ant-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -177,30 +177,5 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>release</id>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>make-project-src-distro</id>
-                <phase>package</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>single</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <descriptors>
-                    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/src.xml</descriptor>
-                  </descriptors>
-                  <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/src.xml b/src/main/assembly/src.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 753680a..0000000
--- a/src/main/assembly/src.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  distributed with this work for additional information
-  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  under the License.
--->
-
-<assembly>
-  <id>src</id>
-  <formats>
-    <format>tar.gz</format>
-    <format>tar.bz2</format>
-    <format>zip</format>
-  </formats>
-  <fileSets>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
-      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-      <includes>
-        <include>src/**</include>
-        <include>pom.xml</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>${project.build.directory}/maven-shared-archive-resources/META-INF</directory>
-      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-    </fileSet>
-  </fileSets>
-</assembly>