diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4bdb5379f50..1beda91b8e4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
+    <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
+    <version>11</version>
+  </parent>
+
   <groupId>com.cloud</groupId>
   <artifactId>cloudstack</artifactId>
   <version>4.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
@@ -41,47 +48,11 @@
   </properties>
 
   <distributionManagement>
-    <repository>
-      <id>apache.releases.https</id>
-      <name>Apache Release Distribution Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2</url>
-    </repository>
-    <snapshotRepository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
-      <name>Apache Development Snapshot Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-      <!--uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion -->
-    </snapshotRepository>
     <site>
       <id>apache.cloudstack.site</id>
       <url>${site.deploy.url}</url>
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
-      <url>http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/</url>
-      <name>Apache Snapshot Repo</name>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>
-  <pluginRepositories>
-    <pluginRepository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
-      <url>http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/</url>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-    </pluginRepository>
-  </pluginRepositories>
 
   <inceptionYear>2012</inceptionYear>