diff --git a/java/RELEASE.md b/java/RELEASE.md
index 16feae6ee0..084460c888 100644
--- a/java/RELEASE.md
+++ b/java/RELEASE.md
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ Set ~/.m2/settings.xml to contain:
       </servers>
     </settings>
 
-Then update rocksjni.pom's version tag to reflect the release version.
-
 From RocksDB's root directory, first build the Java static JARs:
 
     make jclean clean rocksdbjavastaticpublish