diff --git a/tomcat-9.0-log4j.properties b/tomcat-9.0-log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index c136eec..0000000
--- a/tomcat-9.0-log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-log4j.rootLogger=debug, R 
-log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender 
-log4j.appender.R.File=${catalina.home}/logs/tomcat.log 
-log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB 
-log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10 
-log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout 
-log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n 
-log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina=DEBUG, R
-log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=DEBUG, R
-log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core=DEBUG, R
-log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.session=DEBUG, R
diff --git a/tomcat.changes b/tomcat.changes
index d286aae..ff0c9b6 100644
--- a/tomcat.changes
+++ b/tomcat.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 23 11:57:30 UTC 2022 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Remove dependency on log4j/reload4j completely (bsc#1196137)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 22 19:00:25 UTC 2022 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/tomcat.spec b/tomcat.spec
index d3fed2c..e959933 100644
--- a/tomcat.spec
+++ b/tomcat.spec
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ Source4:        %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}.wrapper
 Source5:        %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}.logrotate
 Source6:        %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}-digest.script
 Source7:        %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}-tool-wrapper.script
-Source10:       %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}-log4j.properties
 Source11:       %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}.service
 Source20:       %{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}-jsvc.service
 Source21:       tomcat-functions
@@ -109,7 +108,6 @@ BuildRequires:  java-devel >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
 BuildRequires:  junit
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
-BuildRequires:  reload4j
 BuildRequires:  sed
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  unzip
@@ -122,7 +120,6 @@ Requires:       apache-commons-dbcp
 Requires:       apache-commons-logging
 Requires:       apache-commons-pool2
 Requires:       java >= 1.8
-Requires:       reload4j
 Requires(post): %fillup_prereq
 Requires(pre):  %{_sbindir}/groupadd
 Requires(pre):  %{_sbindir}/useradd
@@ -366,7 +363,6 @@ install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
 # First copy supporting libs to tomcat lib
 pushd output/build
     cp -a bin/*.{jar,xml} %{buildroot}%{bindir}
-    cp %{SOURCE10} conf/log4j.properties
     cp -a conf/*.{policy,properties,xml} %{buildroot}%{confdir}
     cp -a lib/*.jar %{buildroot}%{libdir}
     cp -a webapps/* %{buildroot}%{tomcatappdir}
@@ -445,7 +441,6 @@ pushd %{buildroot}%{libdir}
     rm -f commons-dbcp.jar
     ln -s $(build-classpath commons-dbcp2) commons-dbcp2.jar
     ln -s $(build-classpath commons-pool2) commons-pool2.jar
-    ln -s $(build-classpath reload4j/reload4j) log4j.jar
     ln -s $(build-classpath ecj/ecj) jasper-jdt.jar
 
     # Temporary copy the juli jar here from %%{_datadir}/java/tomcat (for maven depmap)