diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index b9c41734ba..e37e85f2ee 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ New features
 
 Upgrading
 ---------
+   - Pig's CqlStorage has been removed, use CqlNativeStorage instead
    - IAuthenticator been updated to remove responsibility for user/role
      maintenance and is now solely responsible for validating credentials,
      This is primarily done via SASL, though an optional method exists for
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlStorage.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlStorage.java
deleted file mode 100644
index c7277fa1ae..0000000000
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlStorage.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +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.hadoop.pig;
-
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-/**
- * @deprecated use CqlNativeStorage instead. CqlStorage will be removed.
- */
-public class CqlStorage extends CqlNativeStorage
-{
-    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CqlNativeStorage.class);
-
-    public CqlStorage()
-    {
-        this(1000);
-        logger.warn("CqlStorage is deprecated and will be removed in the next release, use CqlNativeStorage instead.");
-    }
-
-    /** @param pageSize limit number of CQL rows to fetch in a thrift request */
-    public CqlStorage(int pageSize)
-    {
-        super(pageSize);
-    }
-}
-