diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
index 72410ab496..d1ffdd480d 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+*   Remove deprecated `ActiveRecord::Base.disable_implicit_join_references=`.
+
+    *Rafael Mendonça França*
+
 *   Remove deprecated access to connection specification using a string acessor.
 
     Now all strings will be handled as a URL.
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/core.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/core.rb
index 38b2d632d2..5c7c0feeb7 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/core.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/core.rb
@@ -87,13 +87,6 @@ module ActiveRecord
 
       mattr_accessor :maintain_test_schema, instance_accessor: false
 
-      def self.disable_implicit_join_references=(value)
-        ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn(<<-MSG.squish)
-          Implicit join references were removed with Rails 4.1.
-          Make sure to remove this configuration because it does nothing.
-        MSG
-      end
-
       class_attribute :default_connection_handler, instance_writer: false
       class_attribute :find_by_statement_cache
 
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/relations_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/relations_test.rb
index fb9258c038..2e2c5ee10b 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/relations_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/relations_test.rb
@@ -1382,12 +1382,6 @@ class RelationTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     assert_equal "id", Post.all.primary_key
   end
 
-  def test_disable_implicit_join_references_is_deprecated
-    assert_deprecated do
-      ActiveRecord::Base.disable_implicit_join_references = true
-    end
-  end
-
   def test_ordering_with_extra_spaces
     assert_equal authors(:david), Author.order('id DESC , name DESC').last
   end