diff --git a/src/Utils.php b/src/Utils.php
index d3fb01080..53c66c25c 100644
--- a/src/Utils.php
+++ b/src/Utils.php
@@ -116,77 +116,6 @@ public static function defaultUserAgent(): string
         return sprintf('GuzzleHttp/%d', ClientInterface::MAJOR_VERSION);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Returns the default cacert bundle for the current system.
-     *
-     * First, the openssl.cafile and curl.cainfo php.ini settings are checked.
-     * If those settings are not configured, then the common locations for
-     * bundles found on Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, OS X
-     * and Windows are checked. If any of these file locations are found on
-     * disk, they will be utilized.
-     *
-     * Note: the result of this function is cached for subsequent calls.
-     *
-     * @throws \RuntimeException if no bundle can be found.
-     *
-     * @deprecated Utils::defaultCaBundle will be removed in guzzlehttp/guzzle:8.0. This method is not needed in PHP 5.6+.
-     */
-    public static function defaultCaBundle(): string
-    {
-        static $cached = null;
-        static $cafiles = [
-            // Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora (provided by the ca-certificates package)
-            '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt',
-            // Ubuntu, Debian (provided by the ca-certificates package)
-            '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt',
-            // FreeBSD (provided by the ca_root_nss package)
-            '/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt',
-            // SLES 12 (provided by the ca-certificates package)
-            '/var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem',
-            // OS X provided by homebrew (using the default path)
-            '/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem',
-            // Google app engine
-            '/etc/ca-certificates.crt',
-            // Windows?
-            'C:\\windows\\system32\\curl-ca-bundle.crt',
-            'C:\\windows\\curl-ca-bundle.crt',
-        ];
-
-        if ($cached) {
-            return $cached;
-        }
-
-        if ($ca = \ini_get('openssl.cafile')) {
-            return $cached = $ca;
-        }
-
-        if ($ca = \ini_get('curl.cainfo')) {
-            return $cached = $ca;
-        }
-
-        foreach ($cafiles as $filename) {
-            if (\file_exists($filename)) {
-                return $cached = $filename;
-            }
-        }
-
-        throw new \RuntimeException(
-            <<< EOT
-No system CA bundle could be found in any of the the common system locations.
-PHP versions earlier than 5.6 are not properly configured to use the system's
-CA bundle by default. In order to verify peer certificates, you will need to
-supply the path on disk to a certificate bundle to the 'verify' request
-option: https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/request-options.html#verify. If
-you do not need a specific certificate bundle, then Mozilla provides a commonly
-used CA bundle which can be downloaded here (provided by the maintainer of
-cURL): https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem. Once you have a CA bundle available
-on disk, you can set the 'openssl.cafile' PHP ini setting to point to the path
-to the file, allowing you to omit the 'verify' request option. See
-https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html for more information.
-EOT
-        );
-    }
-
     /**
      * Creates an associative array of lowercase header names to the actual
      * header casing.