diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
index 6c8e405..ddedca9 100644
--- a/distro/changelog.xml
+++ b/distro/changelog.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 <ReleaseNotes>
+	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.workspace-explorer-app.1-0-1"
+		date="2017-07-03">
+		<Change>[Task #9104] removed log4j.properties file</Change>
+	</Changeset>
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.workspace-explorer-app.1-0-0-1"
 		date="2016-11-10">
 		<Change>Incident #5722: fixed</Change>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 21e8d97..cbf61f2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	</parent>
 	<groupId>org.gcube.portlets.user</groupId>
 	<artifactId>workspace-explorer-app</artifactId>
-	<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
 
 	<description>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 2532c53..0000000
--- a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Created by Francesco Mangiacrapa francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it
-
-# Set root category priority to ERROR and its only appender to LOGFILE.
-log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, LOGFILE
-
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.MaxFileSize=25MB
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.MaxBackupIndex=10
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.File=logs/workspace-explorer-app.log
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.Append=true
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.LOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%-5p] %d %c - %m%n
-#log4j.category.org.gcube=TRACE,A1
-
-##GCube
-log4j.category.org.gcube=ERROR, LOGFILE
-log4j.additivity.org.gcube=false
-
-##HomeLibrary
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.portlets.user.homelibrary=INFO
-
-###MongoLog
-log4j.logger.com.mongodb=SEVERE, LOGFILE
-
-##UriResolver
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.datatransfer.resolver=DEBUG
-
-##Storage
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.contentmanager=INFO
-
-##WorkspaceExplorerApp
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.portlets.user.workspaceexplorerapp=DEBUG
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