diff --git a/.build/cassandra-deps-template.xml b/.build/cassandra-deps-template.xml
index 41796246cd..a9a713f101 100644
--- a/.build/cassandra-deps-template.xml
+++ b/.build/cassandra-deps-template.xml
@@ -136,10 +136,6 @@
       <groupId>io.dropwizard.metrics</groupId>
       <artifactId>metrics-logback</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.addthis.metrics</groupId>
-      <artifactId>reporter-config3</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.clearspring.analytics</groupId>
       <artifactId>stream</artifactId>
diff --git a/.build/parent-pom-template.xml b/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
index 0e6617947f..4c9f72e8ec 100644
--- a/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
+++ b/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
@@ -712,17 +712,6 @@
           </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.addthis.metrics</groupId>
-        <artifactId>reporter-config3</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0.3</version>
-        <exclusions>
-          <exclusion>
-            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
-          </exclusion>
-        </exclusions>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.mindrot</groupId>
         <artifactId>jbcrypt</artifactId>
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 57e241c7cf..03ebe157c0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  * Add the ability to disable bulk loading of SSTables (CASSANDRA-18781)
  * Clean up obsolete functions and simplify cql_version handling in cqlsh (CASSANDRA-18787)
 Merged from 5.0:
+ * Remove unnecessary reporter-config3 dependency (CASSANDRA-18907)
  * Remove support for empty values on the vector data type (CASSANDRA-18876)
  * Upgrade Dropwizard Metrics to 4.2.19 (CASSANDRA-14667)
  * Upgrade caffeine cache and fix CIDR permissions cache invalidation (CASSANDRA-18805)