diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 90b7e8891e..c7a4dde463 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -66,19 +66,6 @@
           qemu: Add support for ARMv6l guests
         </summary>
       </change>
-      <change>
-        <summary>
-          Remember original owners and SELinux labels of files
-        </summary>
-        <description>
-          When a domain is starting up libvirt changes DAC and
-          SELinux labels so that domain can access it. However,
-          it never remembered the original labels and therefore
-          the file was returned back to <code>root:root</code>.
-          With this release, the original labels are remembered
-          and restored properly.
-        </description>
-      </change>
       <change>
         <summary>
           Support more NVDIMM configuration options
diff --git a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
index 8a5b39e568..ddc4bbfd1d 100644
--- a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
+++ b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ module Libvirtd_qemu =
                  | str_entry "user"
                  | str_entry "group"
                  | bool_entry "dynamic_ownership"
-                 | bool_entry "remember_owner"
                  | str_array_entry "cgroup_controllers"
                  | str_array_entry "cgroup_device_acl"
                  | int_entry "seccomp_sandbox"
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu.conf b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
index 29093f6329..28e51b2c59 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu.conf
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
@@ -450,11 +450,6 @@
 # Set to 0 to disable file ownership changes.
 #dynamic_ownership = 1
 
-# Whether libvirt should remember and restore the original
-# ownership over files it is relabeling. Defaults to 1, set
-# to 0 to disable the feature.
-#remember_owner = 1
-
 # What cgroup controllers to make use of with QEMU guests
 #
 #  - 'cpu' - use for scheduler tunables
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
index 20952e9607..b03e38b831 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ virQEMUDriverConfigPtr virQEMUDriverConfigNew(bool privileged)
         cfg->group = (gid_t)-1;
     }
     cfg->dynamicOwnership = privileged;
-    cfg->rememberOwner = privileged;
 
     cfg->cgroupControllers = -1; /* -1 == auto-detect */
 
@@ -729,9 +728,6 @@ int virQEMUDriverConfigLoadFile(virQEMUDriverConfigPtr cfg,
     if (virConfGetValueBool(conf, "dynamic_ownership", &cfg->dynamicOwnership) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
-    if (virConfGetValueBool(conf, "remember_owner", &cfg->rememberOwner) < 0)
-        goto cleanup;
-
     if (virConfGetValueStringList(conf,  "cgroup_controllers", false,
                                   &controllers) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
diff --git a/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in b/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
index 92a8ae1192..f1e8806ad2 100644
--- a/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
+++ b/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ module Test_libvirtd_qemu =
 { "user" = "root" }
 { "group" = "root" }
 { "dynamic_ownership" = "1" }
-{ "remember_owner" = "1" }
 { "cgroup_controllers"
     { "1" = "cpu" }
     { "2" = "devices" }