diff --git a/parquet-column/pom.xml b/parquet-column/pom.xml
index 13081ea948..057736c03a 100644
--- a/parquet-column/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-column/pom.xml
@@ -70,11 +70,6 @@
       <artifactId>zero-allocation-hashing</artifactId>
       <version>${net.openhft.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.yetus</groupId>
-      <artifactId>audience-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>${yetus.audience-annotations.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/schema/LogicalTypeAnnotation.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/schema/LogicalTypeAnnotation.java
index 0c4eba1c3b..c4e50f2926 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/schema/LogicalTypeAnnotation.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/schema/LogicalTypeAnnotation.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 package org.apache.parquet.schema;
 
 import org.apache.parquet.Preconditions;
-import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
 
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -150,9 +149,10 @@ protected LogicalTypeAnnotation fromString(List<String> params) {
    * Convert this logical type to old logical type representation in parquet-mr (if there's any).
    * Those logical type implementations, which don't have a corresponding mapping should return null.
    *
+   * API should be considered private
+   *
    * @return the OriginalType representation of the new logical type, or null if there's none
    */
-  @InterfaceAudience.Private
   public abstract OriginalType toOriginalType();
 
   /**
@@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ PrimitiveStringifier valueStringifier(PrimitiveType primitiveType) {
 
   /**
    * Helper method to convert the old representation of logical types (OriginalType) to new logical type.
+   *
+   * API should be considered private
    */
-  @InterfaceAudience.Private
   public static LogicalTypeAnnotation fromOriginalType(OriginalType originalType, DecimalMetadata decimalMetadata) {
     if (originalType == null) {
       return null;
@@ -302,8 +303,12 @@ public static class StringLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private StringLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.UTF8;
     }
@@ -341,8 +346,12 @@ public static class MapLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private MapLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.MAP;
     }
@@ -375,8 +384,12 @@ public static class ListLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private ListLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.LIST;
     }
@@ -409,8 +422,12 @@ public static class EnumLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private EnumLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.ENUM;
     }
@@ -461,8 +478,12 @@ public int getScale() {
       return scale;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.DECIMAL;
     }
@@ -514,8 +535,12 @@ public static class DateLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private DateLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.DATE;
     }
@@ -562,8 +587,12 @@ private TimeLogicalTypeAnnotation(boolean isAdjustedToUTC, TimeUnit unit) {
       this.unit = unit;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       switch (unit) {
         case MILLIS:
@@ -641,8 +670,12 @@ private TimestampLogicalTypeAnnotation(boolean isAdjustedToUTC, TimeUnit unit) {
       this.unit = unit;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       switch (unit) {
         case MILLIS:
@@ -727,8 +760,12 @@ private IntLogicalTypeAnnotation(int bitWidth, boolean isSigned) {
       this.isSigned = isSigned;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       switch (bitWidth) {
         case 8:
@@ -799,8 +836,12 @@ public static class JsonLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private JsonLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.JSON;
     }
@@ -838,8 +879,12 @@ public static class BsonLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private BsonLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.BSON;
     }
@@ -878,8 +923,12 @@ public static class UUIDLogicalTypeAnnotation extends LogicalTypeAnnotation {
     private UUIDLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       // No OriginalType for UUID
       return null;
@@ -914,8 +963,12 @@ public static LogicalTypeAnnotation getInstance() {
     private IntervalLogicalTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.INTERVAL;
     }
@@ -965,8 +1018,12 @@ public static MapKeyValueTypeAnnotation getInstance() {
     private MapKeyValueTypeAnnotation() {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * API Should be considered private
+     *
+     * @return the original type
+     */
     @Override
-    @InterfaceAudience.Private
     public OriginalType toOriginalType() {
       return OriginalType.MAP_KEY_VALUE;
     }
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml b/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
index 0b8c8fc696..d587de0394 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -164,11 +164,6 @@
       <version>${net.openhft.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.yetus</groupId>
-      <artifactId>audience-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>${yetus.audience-annotations.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ColumnChunkPageWriteStore.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ColumnChunkPageWriteStore.java
index cd6ec5d930..f392a79af6 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ColumnChunkPageWriteStore.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ColumnChunkPageWriteStore.java
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetEncodingException;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
-import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-@InterfaceAudience.Private
+/**
+ * Class should be considered private
+ */
 public class ColumnChunkPageWriteStore implements PageWriteStore, BloomFilterWriteStore {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ColumnChunkPageWriteStore.class);
 
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetFileReader.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetFileReader.java
index f63367022e..a16f987726 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetFileReader.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetFileReader.java
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.io.SeekableInputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType;
-import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -1384,13 +1383,13 @@ public BloomFilter readBloomFilter(ColumnChunkMetaData meta) throws IOException
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param column
-   *          the column chunk which the column index is to be returned for
+   * Class should be considered private
+   *
+   * @param column the column chunk which the column index is to be returned for
+   *
    * @return the column index for the specified column chunk or {@code null} if there is no index
-   * @throws IOException
-   *           if any I/O error occurs during reading the file
+   * @throws IOException if any I/O error occurs during reading the file
    */
-  @Private
   public ColumnIndex readColumnIndex(ColumnChunkMetaData column) throws IOException {
     IndexReference ref = column.getColumnIndexReference();
     if (ref == null) {
@@ -1413,13 +1412,12 @@ public ColumnIndex readColumnIndex(ColumnChunkMetaData column) throws IOExceptio
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param column
-   *          the column chunk which the offset index is to be returned for
+   * Class should be considered private
+   *
+   * @param column the column chunk which the offset index is to be returned for
    * @return the offset index for the specified column chunk or {@code null} if there is no index
-   * @throws IOException
-   *           if any I/O error occurs during reading the file
+   * @throws IOException if any I/O error occurs during reading the file
    */
-  @Private
   public OffsetIndex readOffsetIndex(ColumnChunkMetaData column) throws IOException {
     IndexReference ref = column.getOffsetIndexReference();
     if (ref == null) {
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ColumnChunkMetaData.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ColumnChunkMetaData.java
index f149b1bde0..158348e01c 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ColumnChunkMetaData.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ColumnChunkMetaData.java
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.Types;
-import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 
 /**
  * Column meta data for a block stored in the file footer and passed in the InputSplit
@@ -288,54 +287,57 @@ public PrimitiveType getPrimitiveType() {
   abstract public Statistics getStatistics();
 
   /**
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
    * @return the reference to the column index
    */
-  @Private
   public IndexReference getColumnIndexReference() {
     decryptIfNeeded();
     return columnIndexReference;
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param indexReference
-   *          the reference to the column index
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
+   * @param indexReference the reference to the column index
    */
-  @Private
   public void setColumnIndexReference(IndexReference indexReference) {
     this.columnIndexReference = indexReference;
   }
 
   /**
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
    * @return the reference to the offset index
    */
-  @Private
   public IndexReference getOffsetIndexReference() {
     decryptIfNeeded();
     return offsetIndexReference;
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param offsetIndexReference
-   *          the reference to the offset index
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
+   * @param offsetIndexReference the reference to the offset index
    */
-  @Private
   public void setOffsetIndexReference(IndexReference offsetIndexReference) {
     this.offsetIndexReference = offsetIndexReference;
   }
 
   /**
-   * @param bloomFilterOffset
-   *          the reference to the Bloom filter
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
+   * @param bloomFilterOffset the reference to the Bloom filter
    */
-  @Private
   public void setBloomFilterOffset(long bloomFilterOffset) {
     this.bloomFilterOffset = bloomFilterOffset;
   }
 
   /**
+   * Method should be considered private
+   *
    * @return the offset to the Bloom filter or {@code -1} if there is no bloom filter for this column chunk
    */
-  @Private
   public long getBloomFilterOffset() {
     decryptIfNeeded();
     return bloomFilterOffset;
@@ -372,9 +374,10 @@ public boolean hasDictionaryPage() {
   }
 
   /**
+   * Method should be considered private
+   * 
    * @return whether or not this column is encrypted
    */
-  @Private
   public boolean isEncrypted() {
     return false;
   }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 90e3d5a7e1..c450fac7ca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@
     <powermock.version>2.0.9</powermock.version>
     <net.openhft.version>0.16</net.openhft.version>
     <exec-maven-plugin.version>1.6.0</exec-maven-plugin.version>
-    <yetus.audience-annotations.version>0.13.0</yetus.audience-annotations.version>
 
     <!-- parquet-cli dependencies -->
     <opencsv.version>2.3</opencsv.version>