diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/org/apache/struts2/default.properties b/core/src/main/resources/org/apache/struts2/default.properties
index a3494fa54..697b1ec34 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/org/apache/struts2/default.properties
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/org/apache/struts2/default.properties
@@ -180,9 +180,6 @@ struts.freemarker.wrapper.altMap=true
 ### Set to true for developers and false for production.
 struts.xslt.nocache=false
 
-### A list of configuration files automatically loaded by Struts
-struts.configuration.files=struts-default.xml,struts-plugin.xml,struts.xml
-
 ### Whether to always select the namespace to be everything before the last slash or not
 struts.mapper.alwaysSelectFullNamespace=false