diff --git a/functional-test/pom.xml b/functional-test/pom.xml
index ad573a8872..e33a94eaaf 100644
--- a/functional-test/pom.xml
+++ b/functional-test/pom.xml
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
           <usedDependencies combine.children="append">
             <usedDependency>mysql:mysql-connector-java</usedDependency>
             <usedDependency>org.apache.solr:solr-core</usedDependency>
diff --git a/zanata-model/pom.xml b/zanata-model/pom.xml
index 0e53e72602..149a5681d4 100644
--- a/zanata-model/pom.xml
+++ b/zanata-model/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
           <usedDependencies combine.children="append">
             <usedDependency>org.projectlombok:lombok</usedDependency>
             <usedDependency>org.hibernate:hibernate-search</usedDependency>
diff --git a/zanata-war/pom.xml b/zanata-war/pom.xml
index 435bb19c45..bf2023f8d4 100644
--- a/zanata-war/pom.xml
+++ b/zanata-war/pom.xml
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
         <configuration>
-          <failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
           <usedDependencies combine.children="append">
             <usedDependency>javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api</usedDependency>
             <!-- runtime dep for liquibase logging -->