diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 23fc59f947..9c9447acf2 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -527,7 +527,6 @@
         <dependencyManagement>
           <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.1.10.4"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.lz4" artifactId="lz4-java" version="1.8.0"/>
-          <dependency groupId="com.ning" artifactId="compress-lzf" version="0.8.4" scope="provided"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.github.luben" artifactId="zstd-jni" version="1.5.5-1"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava" version="27.0-jre">
             <exclusion groupId="com.google.code.findbugs" artifactId="jsr305" />
@@ -591,13 +590,15 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.agent" version="${jacoco.version}" scope="test"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.ant" version="${jacoco.version}" scope="test"/>
 
+          <!-- these dependencies have to be of provided scope as they are used by cassandra-dtests and ccm is looking
+               for these libraries in build/lib/jars -->
           <dependency groupId="org.jboss.byteman" artifactId="byteman-install" version="${byteman.version}" scope="provided"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jboss.byteman" artifactId="byteman" version="${byteman.version}" scope="provided"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jboss.byteman" artifactId="byteman-submit" version="${byteman.version}" scope="provided"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jboss.byteman" artifactId="byteman-bmunit" version="${byteman.version}" scope="provided"/>
 
-          <dependency groupId="net.bytebuddy" artifactId="byte-buddy" version="${bytebuddy.version}" />
-          <dependency groupId="net.bytebuddy" artifactId="byte-buddy-agent" version="${bytebuddy.version}" />
+          <dependency groupId="net.bytebuddy" artifactId="byte-buddy" version="${bytebuddy.version}" scope="test"/>
+          <dependency groupId="net.bytebuddy" artifactId="byte-buddy-agent" version="${bytebuddy.version}" scope="test"/>
 
           <dependency groupId="org.openjdk.jmh" artifactId="jmh-core" version="1.37" scope="test"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.openjdk.jmh" artifactId="jmh-generator-annprocess" version="1.37" scope="test"/>
@@ -785,7 +786,6 @@
         <scm connection="${scm.connection}" developerConnection="${scm.developerConnection}" url="${scm.url}"/>
         <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java"/>
         <dependency groupId="org.lz4" artifactId="lz4-java"/>
-        <dependency groupId="com.ning" artifactId="compress-lzf"/>
         <dependency groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava"/>
         <dependency groupId="commons-cli" artifactId="commons-cli"/>
         <dependency groupId="commons-codec" artifactId="commons-codec"/>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/streaming/CassandraStreamWriter.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/streaming/CassandraStreamWriter.java
index 6481f4b976..b5b671d269 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/streaming/CassandraStreamWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/streaming/CassandraStreamWriter.java
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ public class CassandraStreamWriter
     /**
      * Stream file of specified sections to given channel.
      *
-     * CassandraStreamWriter uses LZF compression on wire to decrease size to transfer.
-     *
      * @param output where this writes data to
      * @throws IOException on any I/O error
      */
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/TestRateLimiter.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/TestRateLimiter.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a9eb871a63..0000000000
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/TestRateLimiter.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +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.
- *
- */
-package org.apache.cassandra.utils;
-
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
-
-import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
-import com.google.common.util.concurrent.RateLimiter;
-
-import org.jboss.byteman.rule.Rule;
-import org.jboss.byteman.rule.helper.Helper;
-
-/**
- * Helper class to apply rate limiting during fault injection testing;
- * for an example script, see test/resources/byteman/mutation_limiter.btm.
- */
-@VisibleForTesting
-public class TestRateLimiter extends Helper
-{
-    private static final AtomicReference<RateLimiter> ref = new AtomicReference<>();
-
-    protected TestRateLimiter(Rule rule)
-    {
-        super(rule);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Acquires a single unit at the given rate. If the rate changes between calls, a new rate limiter is created
-     * and the old one is discarded.
-     */
-    public void acquire(double rate)
-    {
-        RateLimiter limiter = ref.get();
-        if (limiter == null || limiter.getRate() != rate)
-        {
-            ref.compareAndSet(limiter, RateLimiter.create(rate));
-            limiter = ref.get();
-        }
-        limiter.acquire(1);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/test/resources/byteman/mutation_limiter.btm b/test/resources/byteman/mutation_limiter.btm
deleted file mode 100644
index fb33b284d7..0000000000
--- a/test/resources/byteman/mutation_limiter.btm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +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.
-#
-
-RULE mutation_limiter
-CLASS org.apache.cassandra.db.MutationVerbHandler
-METHOD doVerb
-HELPER org.apache.cassandra.utils.TestRateLimiter
-AT ENTRY
-IF TRUE
-DO acquire(1000.0)
-ENDRULE
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