diff --git a/smoke-tests/build.gradle.kts b/smoke-tests/build.gradle.kts
index 6c9b67b3a31f..a82ccfb7fa50 100644
--- a/smoke-tests/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/smoke-tests/build.gradle.kts
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ tasks {
   test {
     testLogging.showStandardStreams = true
 
-    // TODO investigate why smoke tests occasionally hang forever
-    //  this needs to be long enough so that smoke tests that are just running slow don"t time out
+    // this needs to be long enough so that smoke tests that are just running slow don't time out
     timeout.set(Duration.ofMinutes(60))
 
     // We enable/disable smoke tests based on the java version requests