diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f133064..239df7e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -163,24 +163,6 @@
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
-                <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
-                <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>4.0.2</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <phase>validate</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>revision</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-                <configuration>
-                    <dateFormat>yyyyMMdd-HHmmss</dateFormat><!--  human-readable part of the version number -->
-                    <dotGitDirectory>${project.basedir}/.git</dotGitDirectory>
-                    <generateGitPropertiesFile>false</generateGitPropertiesFile><!-- somehow necessary. otherwise the variables are not available in the pom -->
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>1.10</version>
diff --git a/src/assembly/bin-distribution.xml b/src/assembly/bin-distribution.xml
index ffddc02..d213453 100644
--- a/src/assembly/bin-distribution.xml
+++ b/src/assembly/bin-distribution.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.1.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.1.0.xsd">
-    <id>${git.commit.id.abbrev}-standalone</id>
+    <id>standalone</id>
     <formats>
         <format>jar</format>
     </formats>