diff --git a/.php_cs.dist b/.php_cs.dist
index f393c2b6dd..b4f990aa95 100644
--- a/.php_cs.dist
+++ b/.php_cs.dist
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ return PhpCsFixer\Config::create()
         '@Symfony:risky' => true,
         '@PHPUnit48Migration:risky' => true,
         'php_unit_no_expectation_annotation' => false, // part of `PHPUnitXYMigration:risky` ruleset, to be enabled when PHPUnit 4.x support will be dropped, as we don't want to rewrite exceptions handling twice
-        'array_syntax' => array('syntax' => 'long'),
         'fopen_flags' => false,
         'ordered_imports' => true,
         'protected_to_private' => false,