diff --git a/deploysettings.xml b/deploysettings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e36d8480d47e6..0000000000000
--- a/deploysettings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +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.
-
--->
-
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
-                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-  <servers>
-    <server>
-      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
-      <username>${sonatype_user}</username>
-      <password>${sonatype_pw}</password>
-    </server>
-    <server>
-      <id>apache.releases.https</id>
-      <username>${sonatype_user}</username>
-      <password>${sonatype_pw}</password>
-    </server>
-  </servers>
-</settings>
-
diff --git a/tools/releasing/create_source_release.sh b/tools/releasing/create_source_release.sh
index 47b217686140b..fd1b13cf41b16 100755
--- a/tools/releasing/create_source_release.sh
+++ b/tools/releasing/create_source_release.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ cd ${CLONE_DIR}
 
 rsync -a \
   --exclude ".git" --exclude ".gitignore" --exclude ".gitattributes" --exclude ".travis.yml" \
-  --exclude "deploysettings.xml" --exclude "CHANGELOG" --exclude ".github" --exclude "target" \
+  --exclude "CHANGELOG" --exclude ".github" --exclude "target" \
   --exclude ".idea" --exclude "*.iml" --exclude ".DS_Store" --exclude "build-target" \
   --exclude "docs/content" --exclude ".rubydeps" \
   . flink-$RELEASE_VERSION