diff --git a/phing/tasks/blt.xml b/phing/tasks/blt.xml
index 0bd46fa86..4aa0c97c7 100644
--- a/phing/tasks/blt.xml
+++ b/phing/tasks/blt.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="blt:update-delta" description="Performs scripted updates for a specific BLT version delta." hidden="true">
-    <echo level="verbose">Executing scripted updates for version delta ${blt.schema-version} -> ${blt.version}...</echo>
+    <echo>Executing scripted updates for version delta ${blt.schema-version} -> ${blt.version}...</echo>
     <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="${repo.root}/vendor/bin/blt-console blt:update ${blt.schema-version} ${blt.version} ${repo.root} --yes" logoutput="true" checkreturn="true" level="${blt.exec_level}" passthru="true"/>
 
     <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="echo ${blt.version} > ${blt.config-files.schema-version}" checkreturn="true" logoutput="true" passthru="false" level="${blt.exec_level}"/>
diff --git a/phing/tasks/properties.xml b/phing/tasks/properties.xml
index e5b63eacc..f4c4bd1ad 100644
--- a/phing/tasks/properties.xml
+++ b/phing/tasks/properties.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   </if>
   <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="cat ${blt.config-files.schema-version}" outputProperty="blt.schema-version" checkreturn="true" logoutput="false" level="${blt.exec_level}"/>
   <!-- Send errors to /dev/null, for environments like ACE without composer. -->
-  <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="composer info acquia/blt 2> /dev/null | grep versions | awk '{print $4}'" outputProperty="blt.version" logoutput="false" checkreturn="true" level="${blt.exec_level}" />
+  <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="composer info acquia/blt --no-ansi 2> /dev/null | grep versions | awk '{print $4}'" outputProperty="blt.version" logoutput="false" checkreturn="true" level="${blt.exec_level}" />
 
   <!-- Set the ${verbosity} variable.  -->
   <verbosityTask returnProperty="verbosity"/>