diff --git a/apps/jetty/build.xml b/apps/jetty/build.xml
index 2fad37dfafe9fe236bea7bb9125e3506bd78aa35..b1fdbcd461996716c13d2e4277b6bf07d2c1c9b6 100644
--- a/apps/jetty/build.xml
+++ b/apps/jetty/build.xml
@@ -149,9 +149,14 @@
         <!-- commons-logging.jar not in Jetty 6 but we have it in launch4j so copy it over,
              needed for old plugins and things. We add tomcat-juli below.
           -->
+      <!--
+        * Removed in 0.9.24, see ticket #1679
+        * Jetty now uses tomcat-juli (added below to commons-logging.jar), not commons-logging proper,
+        * and no known plugins use it either.
         <jar destfile="jettylib/commons-logging.jar" filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain" >
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/LICENSE.txt META-INF/NOTICE.txt" src="../../installer/lib/launch4j/lib/commons-logging.jar" />
         </jar>
+      -->
         <ant target="copyTomcatLib" />
     </target>
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index aefc60d52d7d423a78af970632f807bc7fdc3654..f6a8a54517a8861077b0c949d44f94ac400ae8b3 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1465,9 +1465,7 @@
     </target>
 
     <!-- All jetty jars required for update.
-         We don't need commons-el or commons-logging, they haven't changed.
          TODO do we need to bother updating jasper?
-         TODO where is JMX? We don't need it I hope.
       -->
     <target name="prepjupdate" depends="prepupdate, buildWEB">
         <copy todir="pkg-temp/lib" >