diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb088e2c..bcb3f2a1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@
           <failThreshold>Low</failThreshold>
           <effort>Max</effort>
           <relaxed>false</relaxed>
-          <fork>true</fork>
           <excludeFilterFile>etc/spotbugs-exclusion-filter.xml</excludeFilterFile>
           <includeTests>true</includeTests>
           <plugins>