diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 72f979699..5a453d8c3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@
     <approvaltests.version>24.4.0</approvaltests.version>
     <spotless.version>2.43.0</spotless.version>
     <javaparser.version>3.26.1</javaparser.version>
-    <commons-compress.version>1.27.0</commons-compress.version>
     <jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
     <asm.version>9.7</asm.version>
     <jgit.version>6.10.0.202406032230-r</jgit.version>
diff --git a/test-gen-plugin/pom.xml b/test-gen-plugin/pom.xml
index 7f80872c9..72bbae23e 100644
--- a/test-gen-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/test-gen-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@
       <artifactId>javaparser-core</artifactId>
       <version>${javaparser.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-      <version>${commons-compress.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
diff --git a/test-gen-plugin/src/main/java/com/dylibso/chicory/maven/TarExtractor.java b/test-gen-plugin/src/main/java/com/dylibso/chicory/maven/TarExtractor.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d3d7fbcb9..000000000
--- a/test-gen-plugin/src/main/java/com/dylibso/chicory/maven/TarExtractor.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-package com.dylibso.chicory.maven;
-
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.ArchiveEntry;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.gzip.GzipCompressorInputStream;
-
-public class TarExtractor {
-
-    private final InputStream tarStream;
-
-    private final Path destination;
-
-    public TarExtractor(InputStream in, Path destination) {
-        this.tarStream = in;
-        this.destination = destination;
-    }
-
-    public void untar() throws IOException {
-
-        Files.createDirectories(destination);
-
-        try (BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(this.tarStream);
-                TarArchiveInputStream tar =
-                        new TarArchiveInputStream(new GzipCompressorInputStream(inputStream))) {
-            ArchiveEntry entry;
-            while ((entry = tar.getNextEntry()) != null) {
-                Path extractTo = this.destination.resolve(entry.getName());
-                if (entry.isDirectory()) {
-                    Files.createDirectories(extractTo);
-                } else {
-                    Files.copy(tar, extractTo);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}