diff --git a/plugins/stats-collector/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/plugins/stats-collector/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
index 1e3592506dc2..687a1e43c7eb 100644
--- a/plugins/stats-collector/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugins/stats-collector/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
       "Machine Learning Assistant Code Completion" section.
     ]]></description>
 
-  <change-notes><![CDATA[
-    ]]>
-  </change-notes>
-
   <depends>com.intellij.modules.lang</depends>
   <depends>com.intellij.modules.platform</depends>
 
diff --git a/plugins/stream-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/plugins/stream-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
index 173afb5bff86..387d7ededcb8 100644
--- a/plugins/stream-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugins/stream-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
@@ -30,32 +30,6 @@
       <p>In the latter mode, you can switch between operations manually using the tabs on top.</p>
     ]]></description>
 
-  <change-notes><![CDATA[
-      2017.3 <br>
-        <ul>
-            <li> Add as a bundled plugin to the IDEA Community </li>
-            <li> Update UI </li>
-            <li> Bug-fixes and improvements </li>
-        </ul>
-      0.1.4 <br>
-        <ul>
-            <li> Support <a href="https://github.com/amaembo/streamex">StreamEx</a> library </li>
-            <li> Minor fixes and improvements </li>
-        </ul>
-      0.1.3 <br>
-        <ul>
-            <li> Remove usage of unsupported API </li>
-        </ul>
-      0.1.2 <br>
-        <ul>
-            <li> Add transitions for toArray/collect/find*/*Match terminal methods </li>
-            <li> Support stream with nulls </li>
-            <li> Fix bug when IDE hangs </li>
-            <li> Minor fixes and improvements </li>
-        </ul>
-    ]]>
-  </change-notes>
-
   <extensionPoints>
     <extensionPoint name="librarySupport" interface="com.intellij.debugger.streams.lib.LibrarySupportProvider"/>
   </extensionPoints>
diff --git a/plugins/xslt-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/plugins/xslt-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
index 2cd78969053f..12adb6848006 100644
--- a/plugins/xslt-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugins/xslt-debugger/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   <depends>XPathView</depends>
   <depends>com.intellij.modules.xml</depends>
 
+  <!--suppress PluginXmlValidity -->
   <change-notes>
     Xalan Support. To debug with Xalan instead of SAXON, a supported Xalan version (2.7.x) should be present in the
     classpath or "-Dxslt.transformer.type=xalan" should be added as VM argument for the run configuration. Debugging
diff --git a/python/rest/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/python/rest/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
index 561d173442b0..20d0562f407b 100644
--- a/python/rest/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
+++ b/python/rest/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   <depends>com.intellij.modules.lang</depends>
 
   <xi:include href="/META-INF/rest.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/idea-plugin/*)"/>
+  <!--suppress PluginXmlValidity -->
   <change-notes><![CDATA[
     <ul>
     <li>Added inspection for title & underline length math (PY-10998)</li>