diff --git a/src/it/settings.xml b/src/it/settings.xml
index c3d4b0e..c8f77f0 100644
--- a/src/it/settings.xml
+++ b/src/it/settings.xml
@@ -37,17 +37,6 @@
             <enabled>true</enabled>
           </snapshots>
         </repository>
-        <!-- remove when maven-archiver 2.5 released -->
-        <repository>
-          <id>apache.snapshots</id>
-          <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
-          <releases>
-            <enabled>false</enabled>
-          </releases>
-          <snapshots>
-            <enabled>true</enabled>
-          </snapshots>
-        </repository>
       </repositories>
       <pluginRepositories>
         <pluginRepository>