diff --git a/mysql-connector-java.spec b/mysql-connector-java.spec
index 667cb18..862d78b 100644
--- a/mysql-connector-java.spec
+++ b/mysql-connector-java.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Summary:       Official JDBC driver for MySQL
 Name:          mysql-connector-java
 Version:       8.0.16
-Release:       5%{?dist}
+Release:       6%{?dist}
 Epoch:         1
 License:       GPLv2 with exceptions
 URL:           http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
@@ -43,12 +43,10 @@ BuildRequires: git
 BuildRequires: javassist
 BuildRequires: java-devel >= 1:1.6.0
 BuildRequires: javapackages-local
-BuildRequires: jta >= 1.0
 BuildRequires: junit
 BuildRequires: protobuf-java
 BuildRequires: slf4j
 
-Requires:      jta >= 1.0
 Requires:      slf4j
 
 %description
@@ -77,7 +75,7 @@ sed -i 's/>@.*</>%{version}</' src/build/misc/pom.xml
 %build
 
 # We need both JDK1.5 (for JDBC3.0; appointed by $JAVA_HOME) and JDK1.6 (for JDBC4.0; appointed in the build.xml)
-export CLASSPATH=$(build-classpath jdbc-stdext jta junit slf4j commons-logging.jar)
+export CLASSPATH=$(build-classpath jdbc-stdext junit slf4j commons-logging.jar)
 
 # We currently need to disable jboss integration because of missing jboss-common-jdbc-wrapper.jar (built from sources).
 # See BZ#480154 and BZ#471915 for details.
@@ -101,6 +99,9 @@ ant -Dcom.mysql.cj.build.jdk=%{java_home} \
 %license LICENSE
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 07 2020 Ondrej Dubaj <odubaj@redhat.com> - 1:8.0.16-6
+- removed jta dependency
+
 * Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1:8.0.16-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild