diff --git a/.build/README.md b/.build/README.md
index 72a974afc4..c9ae0e468f 100644
--- a/.build/README.md
+++ b/.build/README.md
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ Build with a specific jdk:
     .build/docker/build-redhat.sh rpm 11
 
 
-Build with centos7 and a specific jdk:
-
-    .build/docker/build-redhat.sh noboolean 11
-
 
 Running Tests
 -------------
diff --git a/.build/docker/_build-redhat.sh b/.build/docker/_build-redhat.sh
index 6d76b30bd6..8ef72bf356 100755
--- a/.build/docker/_build-redhat.sh
+++ b/.build/docker/_build-redhat.sh
@@ -36,24 +36,6 @@ command -v rpmbuild >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "rpm-build needs to be install
 [ -d "${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/SOURCES" ] || mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
 
 
-if [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then
-   echo "$0 [-h] [dist_type]"
-   echo "dist types are [rpm, noboolean] and rpm is default"
-   exit 1
-fi
-
-RPM_DIST=$1
-[ "x${RPM_DIST}" != "x" ] || RPM_DIST="rpm"
-
-if [ "${RPM_DIST}" == "rpm" ]; then
-   RPM_SPEC="redhat/cassandra.spec"
-elif [ "${RPM_DIST}" == "noboolean" ]; then # noboolean
-   RPM_SPEC="redhat/noboolean/cassandra.spec"
-else
-   echo >&2 "Only rpm and noboolean are valid dist_type arguments. Got ${RPM_DIST}"
-   exit 1
-fi
-
 ################################
 #
 # Main
@@ -116,7 +98,7 @@ cp ${DIST_DIR}/apache-cassandra-*-src.tar.gz ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/SOURCES/
 CASSANDRA_VERSION=${CASSANDRA_VERSION/-/\~}
 
 command -v python >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias python=/usr/bin/python3
-rpmbuild --define="version ${CASSANDRA_VERSION}" --define="revision ${CASSANDRA_REVISION}" --define="_topdir ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}" -ba ${RPM_SPEC}
+rpmbuild --define="version ${CASSANDRA_VERSION}" --define="revision ${CASSANDRA_REVISION}" --define="_topdir ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}" -ba redhat/cassandra.spec
 cp ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/SRPMS/*.rpm ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/RPMS/noarch/*.rpm ${DIST_DIR}
 
 popd >/dev/null
diff --git a/.build/docker/almalinux-build.docker b/.build/docker/almalinux-build.docker
index c850942620..89832b67b3 100644
--- a/.build/docker/almalinux-build.docker
+++ b/.build/docker/almalinux-build.docker
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ RUN yum -y install \
    procps \
    rsync
 
-RUN until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 1 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm -o ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm ; do echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; done
+RUN until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 1 https://vault.centos.org/7.9.2009/os/x86_64/Packages/ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm -o ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm ; do echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; done
 
 RUN rpm -i --nodeps ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm
 
diff --git a/.build/docker/build-redhat.sh b/.build/docker/build-redhat.sh
index 35149855c7..4163ce9153 100755
--- a/.build/docker/build-redhat.sh
+++ b/.build/docker/build-redhat.sh
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 
 if [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then
-   echo "$0 [-h] [rpm|noboolean] [<java_version>]"
-   echo " build redhat packages, specify noboolean for centos7 compatibility"
+   echo "$0 [-h] [rpm] [<java_version>]"
+   echo " build redhat packages"
    exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -26,13 +26,11 @@ fi
 rpm_dist=$1
 java_version=$2
 
-if [ "${rpm_dist}" == "noboolean" ]; then
-    dist_name="centos7"
-else # noboolean
-    dist_name="almalinux"
+if [ -n "${rpm_dist}" ] && [ "rpm" != "${rpm_dist}" ]; then
+   echo >&2 "Only rpm is a valid dist_type arguments. Got ${rpm_dist}"
+   exit 1
 fi
 
-
 echo
 echo "==="
 echo "WARNING: this script modifies local versioned files"
@@ -42,5 +40,5 @@ echo
 #
 # Creates the redhat package
 
-$(dirname "$0")/_docker_run.sh ${dist_name}-build.docker docker/_build-redhat.sh "${java_version}" ${rpm_dist}
+$(dirname "$0")/_docker_run.sh almalinux-build.docker docker/_build-redhat.sh "${java_version}"
 exit $?
diff --git a/.build/docker/centos7-build.docker b/.build/docker/centos7-build.docker
deleted file mode 100644
index 901e77985d..0000000000
--- a/.build/docker/centos7-build.docker
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-FROM centos:7
-MAINTAINER Apache Cassandra <dev@cassandra.apache.org>
-
-# CONTEXT is expected to be cassandra/.build
-
-ENV BUILD_HOME=/home/build
-ENV RPM_BUILD_DIR=$BUILD_HOME/rpmbuild
-ENV DIST_DIR=/dist
-ENV CASSANDRA_DIR=$BUILD_HOME/cassandra
-ENV ANT_VERSION=1.10.14
-ARG UID_ARG=1000
-ARG GID_ARG=1000
-
-LABEL org.cassandra.buildenv=centos
-
-RUN echo "Building with arguments:" \
-    && echo " - DIST_DIR=${DIST_DIR}" \
-    && echo " - BUILD_HOME=${BUILD_HOME}" \
-    && echo " - RPM_BUILD_DIR=${RPM_BUILD_DIR}" \
-    && echo " - CASSANDRA_DIR=${CASSANDRA_DIR}" \
-    && echo " - UID_ARG=${UID_ARG}" \
-    && echo " - GID_ARG=${GID_ARG}"
-
-# install deps
-RUN yum -y install \
-   ant \
-   git \
-   java-11-openjdk-devel \
-   make \
-   rpm-build \
-   sudo \
-   python3-pip \
-   rsync
-
-RUN until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-delay 1 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm -o ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm ; do echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; done
-
-RUN rpm -i --nodeps ant-junit-1.9.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm
-
-# try first downloads.a.o and then archive.a.o (as the latter has a 5GB per IP daily limit)
-RUN until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-delay 1 https://downloads.apache.org/ant/binaries/apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz -o apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz || curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-delay 1 http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz -o apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz ; do echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; done
-
-RUN rm -rf /etc/ant.conf
-RUN tar xvf apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz -C /opt
-RUN ln -sfn /opt/apache-ant-${ANT_VERSION} /opt/ant
-RUN sh -c 'echo ANT_HOME=/opt/ant >> /etc/environment'
-RUN ln -sfn /opt/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant
-
-# jdk17 latest on x64
-RUN if [ "$(arch)" == "x86_64" ] ; then \
-      until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-delay 1 https://download.oracle.com/java/17/latest/jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz -o openjdk-17_bin.tar.gz ; do \
-        echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; \
-      done \
-     fi
-
-# jdk17 latest on arm
-RUN if [ "$(arch)" == "aarch64" ] ; then \
-      until curl -f -S -s --retry 9 --retry-delay 1 https://download.oracle.com/java/17/latest/jdk-17_linux-aarch64_bin.tar.gz -o openjdk-17_bin.tar.gz ; do \
-        echo "curl failed… trying again in 10s… " ; sleep 10 ; \
-      done \
-    fi
-
-RUN tar xvf openjdk-17_bin.tar.gz
-RUN mv jdk-17* /opt/jdk-17
-
-RUN alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk-17/bin/java 3 --family java-17-openjdk.$(arch)
-RUN alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk-17/bin/javac 3 --family java-17-openjdk.$(arch)
-
-# python3 is needed for the gen-doc target
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
-
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7c6c10cd50..d70641781a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 5.1
+ * Support for noboolean rpm (centos7 compatible) packages removed (CASSANDRA-19787)
  * Allow threads waiting for the metadata log follower to be interrupted (CASSANDRA-19761)
  * Support dictionary lookup for CassandraPasswordValidator (CASSANDRA-19762)
  * Disallow denylisting keys in system_cluster_metadata (CASSANDRA-19713)
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/README b/redhat/noboolean/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 33ab959e2b..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-These files create the 'noboolean' rpm packaging, using the same procedure as normal.
-These differ from the other packages by not using boolean dependency logic, intended for
-systems using rpmlib < 4.13.
-
-See CASSANDRA-17765 for more information.
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra b/redhat/noboolean/cassandra
deleted file mode 120000
index d9af9adbce..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../cassandra
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.conf b/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.conf
deleted file mode 120000
index 7c12fb6720..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../cassandra.conf
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.in.sh b/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.in.sh
deleted file mode 120000
index 115b45ba92..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.in.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../cassandra.in.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.spec b/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index e151f03878..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/cassandra.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,219 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-%define __jar_repack %{nil}
-# Turn off the brp-python-bytecompile script and mangling shebangs for Python scripts
-%global __os_install_post %(echo '%{__os_install_post}' | sed -e 's!/usr/lib[^[:space:]]*/brp-python-bytecompile[[:space:]].*$!!g' -e 's!/usr/lib[^[:space:]]*/brp-mangle-shebangs[[:space:]].*$!!g')
-
-# rpmbuild should not barf when it spots we ship
-# binary executable files in our 'noarch' package
-%define _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build   0
-
-%define __python /usr/bin/python3
-
-%global username cassandra
-
-# input of ~alphaN, ~betaN, ~rcN package versions need to retain upstream '-alphaN, etc' version for sources
-%define upstream_version %(echo %{version} | sed -r 's/~/-/g')
-%define relname apache-cassandra-%{upstream_version}
-
-# default DIST_DIR to build
-%global _get_dist_dir %(echo "${DIST_DIR:-build}")
-
-Name:          cassandra
-Version:       %{version}
-Release:       %{revision}
-Summary:       Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
-
-Group:         Development/Libraries
-License:       Apache Software License 2.0
-URL:           http://cassandra.apache.org/
-Source0:       %{relname}-src.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{relname}root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires: ant >= 1.9
-BuildRequires: ant-junit >= 1.9
-
-Requires:      java-11-headless
-Requires:      python(abi) >= 3.6
-Requires:      procps-ng >= 3.3
-Requires(pre): user(cassandra)
-Requires(pre): group(cassandra)
-Requires(pre): shadow-utils
-Provides:      user(cassandra)
-Provides:      group(cassandra)
-
-BuildArch:     noarch
-
-# Don't examine the .so files we bundle for dependencies
-AutoReqProv:   no
-
-%description
-Cassandra is a distributed (peer-to-peer) system for the management and storage of structured data.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{relname}-src
-
-%build
-export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
-ant jar -Dversion=%{upstream_version} -Dno-checkstyle=true -Drat.skip=true -Dant.gen-doc.skip=true
-
-%install
-%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/lib
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/default.conf
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/security/limits.d
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/default
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/commitlog
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/data
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/saved_caches
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/hints
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/run/%{username}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/log/%{username}
-( cd pylib && %{__python} setup.py install --no-compile --root %{buildroot}; )
-
-# patches for data and log paths
-patch -p1 < debian/patches/cassandra_yaml_dirs.diff
-patch -p1 < debian/patches/cassandra_logdir_fix.diff
-# uncomment hints_directory path
-sed -i 's/^# hints_directory:/hints_directory:/' conf/cassandra.yaml
-
-# remove other files not being installed
-rm -f bin/stop-server
-rm -f bin/*.orig
-rm -f bin/cassandra.in.sh
-rm -f tools/bin/cassandra.in.sh
-
-# copy default configs
-cp -pr conf/* %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/default.conf/
-
-# step on default config with our redhat one
-cp -p redhat/%{username}.in.sh %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/%{username}.in.sh
-cp -p redhat/%{username} %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{username}
-cp -p redhat/%{username}.conf %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/security/limits.d/
-cp -p redhat/default %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/default/%{username}
-
-# copy cassandra bundled libs
-cp -pr lib/* %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/lib/
-
-# copy stress jar
-cp -p %{_get_dist_dir}/tools/lib/stress.jar %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/
-
-# copy fqltool jar
-cp -p %{_get_dist_dir}/tools/lib/fqltool.jar %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/
-
-# copy binaries
-mv bin/cassandra %{buildroot}/usr/sbin/
-cp -p bin/* %{buildroot}/usr/bin/
-cp -p tools/bin/* %{buildroot}/usr/bin/
-
-# copy cassandra jar
-cp %{_get_dist_dir}/apache-cassandra-%{upstream_version}.jar %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/
-
-%clean
-%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%pre
-getent group %{username} >/dev/null || groupadd -r %{username}
-getent passwd %{username} >/dev/null || \
-useradd -d /var/lib/%{username} -g %{username} -M -r %{username}
-exit 0
-
-%files
-%defattr(0644,root,root,0755)
-%doc CHANGES.txt LICENSE.txt README.asc NEWS.txt NOTICE.txt CASSANDRA-14092.txt
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/auditlogviewer
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/jmxtool
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/cassandra-stress
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/cqlsh
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/cqlsh.py
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/debug-cql
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/fqltool
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/generatetokens
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/nodetool
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableloader
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablescrub
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableupgrade
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableutil
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableverify
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/cassandra
-%attr(755,root,root) /%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{username}
-%{_sysconfdir}/default/%{username}
-%{_sysconfdir}/security/limits.d/%{username}.conf
-/usr/share/%{username}*
-%config(noreplace) /%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}
-%attr(750,%{username},%{username}) %config(noreplace) /var/lib/%{username}/*
-%attr(750,%{username},%{username}) /var/log/%{username}*
-%attr(750,%{username},%{username}) /var/run/%{username}*
-%{python_sitelib}/cqlshlib/
-%{python_sitelib}/cassandra_pylib*.egg-info
-
-%post
-alternatives --install /%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/conf %{username} /%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/default.conf/ 0
-exit 0
-
-%preun
-# only delete alternative on removal, not upgrade
-if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
-    alternatives --remove %{username} /%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/default.conf/
-fi
-exit 0
-
-
-%package tools
-Summary:       Extra tools for Cassandra. Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
-Group:         Development/Libraries
-Requires:      cassandra = %{version}-%{revision}
-
-%description tools
-Cassandra is a distributed (peer-to-peer) system for the management and storage of structured data.
-.
-This package contains extra tools for working with Cassandra clusters.
-
-%files tools
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablepartitions
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstabledump
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/compaction-stress
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableexpiredblockers
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablelevelreset
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablemetadata
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstableofflinerelevel
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablerepairedset
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sstablesplit
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/auditlogviewer
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/jmxtool
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/fqltool
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/generatetokens
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/hash_password
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/addtocmstool
-
-
-%changelog
-# packaging changes, not software changes
-* Thu May 04 2023 Mick Semb Wever <mck@apache.org>
-- 5.0
-- RPM packaging brought in-tree. CASSANDRA-18133
-* Mon Dec 05 2016 Michael Shuler <mshuler@apache.org>
-- 2.1.17, 2.2.9, 3.0.11, 3.10
-- Reintroduce RPM packaging
diff --git a/redhat/noboolean/default b/redhat/noboolean/default
deleted file mode 120000
index 446d58f0d0..0000000000
--- a/redhat/noboolean/default
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default
\ No newline at end of file