diff --git a/solr-tomcat-instance/defaults/main.yml b/solr-tomcat-instance/defaults/main.yml
index 5ae54a9..b0af2da 100644
--- a/solr-tomcat-instance/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/solr-tomcat-instance/defaults/main.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # solr
 solr_http_port: 8983
 tomcat_load_additional_default_conf: True
-tomcat_version: 7
 # solr needs a lot of time to start if it needs to rebuild its indices
 tomcat_restart_timeout: 100000