diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
index 8532e794a3..e954bb4d36 100644
--- a/paper-api/pom.xml
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -30,26 +30,6 @@
         </snapshotRepository>
     </distributionManagement>
 
-    <repositories>
-        <!--
-            If you are a plugin developer, please use https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/
-            as your repository URL. This will ensure only Bukkit / Spigot-API are pulled from our Maven repository.
-
-            Please see https://www.spigotmc.org/go/maven for more information.
-        -->
-        <repository>
-            <id>spigotmc-public</id>
-            <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
-        </repository>
-    </repositories>
-
-    <pluginRepositories>
-        <pluginRepository>
-            <id>spigotmc-public</id>
-            <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
-        </pluginRepository>
-    </pluginRepositories>
-
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -129,11 +109,10 @@
                     <compilerId>eclipse</compilerId>
                 </configuration>
                 <dependencies>
-                    <!-- we need our custom version as it fixes some bugs on case sensitive file systems -->
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
                         <artifactId>plexus-compiler-eclipse</artifactId>
-                        <version>2.8.5-spigotmc</version>
+                        <version>2.8.8</version>
                     </dependency>
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>