diff --git a/maven-plugin-testing-harness/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-testing-harness/pom.xml
index 49420cd..31faec2 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-testing-harness/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-testing-harness/pom.xml
@@ -87,23 +87,6 @@ under the License.
       <version>${wagonVersion}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <!--
-    Keep this one as isolated as possible.
-    But has to be present, as Maven 3 object graph is incomplete without it
-    -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-      <artifactId>maven-compat</artifactId>
-      <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
-      <scope>runtime</scope>
-      <optional>true</optional>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>*</groupId>
-          <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
diff --git a/maven-plugin-testing-harness/src/site/markdown/index.md b/maven-plugin-testing-harness/src/site/markdown/index.md
index 20f314b..9de97c5 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-testing-harness/src/site/markdown/index.md
+++ b/maven-plugin-testing-harness/src/site/markdown/index.md
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ date: February 2008
 ## Maven Plugin Testing Harness
 
 
- The Maven Plugin Testing Harness provides mechanisms to manage tests on Mojos, i.e. by pre-constructing the [Plexus](http://plexus.codehaus.org) components, providing stub objects for Maven functionality such as projects, and populating fields from an XML file that resembles the plugin configuration in the POM.
+The Maven Plugin Testing Harness provides mechanisms to manage tests on Mojos, i.e. by pre-constructing the [Plexus](http://plexus.codehaus.org) components, providing stub objects for Maven functionality such as projects, and populating fields from an XML file that resembles the plugin configuration in the POM.
 
- The best way to start is to read the cookbook [How to use Maven Plugin Testing Harness](./getting-started/index.html).
+The best way to start is to read the cookbook [How to use Maven Plugin Testing Harness](./getting-started/index.html).
 
 ### Migration to 3.4.0
 
@@ -42,13 +42,12 @@ Therefore, some project dependencies have been set as optional to avoid conflict
 Your project should depend on the following artifacts, if needed:
 
 - `org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-archiver` - used by `ArtifactStubFactory` 
-- `org.apache.maven:maven-compat` - used by `MojoRule`
+- `org.apache.maven:maven-compat` - used by `MojoRule` (not needed with Maven 3.9.12+)
 - `org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api` - used for JUnit 5 tests
 - `junit:junit` - used for JUnit 3/4 tests
 
 ### Examples
 
-
  The following examples shows how to use the Testing Harness in more advanced use cases: