diff --git a/driver-core/pom.xml b/driver-core/pom.xml
index 5f5ea3470e0..c607c8f4819 100644
--- a/driver-core/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-core/pom.xml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>${netty-tcnative.artifact}</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</artifactId>
             <classifier>${os.detected.classifier}</classifier>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 37e9d97e603..c967b64af36 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@
         <slf4j-log4j12.version>1.7.25</slf4j-log4j12.version>
         <guava.version>19.0</guava.version>
         <netty.version>4.1.94.Final</netty.version>
-        <netty-tcnative.artifact>netty-tcnative</netty-tcnative.artifact>
         <netty-tcnative.version>2.0.61.Final</netty-tcnative.version>
         <metrics.version>3.2.2</metrics.version>
         <snappy.version>1.1.2.6</snappy.version>
@@ -357,7 +356,7 @@
 
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>${netty-tcnative.artifact}</artifactId>
+                <artifactId>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</artifactId>
                 <version>${netty-tcnative.version}</version>
                 <classifier>${os.detected.classifier}</classifier>
             </dependency>
@@ -1169,8 +1168,6 @@ limitations under the License.
                 </os>
             </activation>
             <properties>
-                <!-- https://netty.io/wiki/forked-tomcat-native.html netty on apple-silicon requires the boringssl variant of tc-native -->
-                <netty-tcnative.artifact>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</netty-tcnative.artifact>
                 <!-- https://github.com/jnr/jffi/pull/116 apple-silicon requires signed jffi binaries, added in 1.3.8 (jnr-ffi 2.2.10+) -->
                 <jnr-ffi.version>2.2.10</jnr-ffi.version>
                 <snappy.version>1.1.10.1</snappy.version>