diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 596c8a71c9..d22e268c4f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@
                         <!-- When compilers say false, they mean true ...
                              https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-209 -->
                         <useIncrementalCompilation>false</useIncrementalCompilation>
-                        <verbose>true</verbose>
                         <fork>true</fork>
                         <maxmem>512m</maxmem>
                         <meminitial>256m</meminitial>