diff --git a/development.ini b/development.ini
--- a/development.ini
+++ b/development.ini
@@ -153,18 +153,6 @@ show_revision_number = false
 ## Kallithea url, ie. http[s]://kallithea.example.com/_admin/gists/<gistid>
 gist_alias_url =
 
-## white list of API enabled controllers. This allows to add list of
-## controllers to which access will be enabled by api_key. eg: to enable
-## api access to raw_files put `FilesController:raw`, to enable access to patches
-## add `ChangesetController:changeset_patch`. This list should be "," separated
-## Syntax is <ControllerClass>:<function>. Check debug logs for generated names
-## Recommended settings below are commented out:
-api_access_controllers_whitelist =
-#    ChangesetController:changeset_patch,
-#    ChangesetController:changeset_raw,
-#    FilesController:raw,
-#    FilesController:archivefile
-
 ## default encoding used to convert from and to unicode
 ## can be also a comma separated list of encoding in case of mixed encodings
 default_encoding = utf-8