diff --git a/config_defaults.yml b/config_defaults.yml
index 1220a4e08500df987fe794b6747cc567d962146c..7721ac9b88b26e7c39999bf7e78096abbe5cddfb 100644
--- a/config_defaults.yml
+++ b/config_defaults.yml
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Gemfile:
       - gem: 'puppet-strings'
         version: '~> 4.0'
       - gem: 'puppetlabs_spec_helper'
-        version: '~> 7.0'
+        version: '~> 7.3'
     ':system_tests':
       - gem: 'puppet_litmus'
         version:
diff --git a/moduleroot/.rspec.erb b/moduleroot/.rspec.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index 16f9cdb013585a86aa600f8d0c002e8a2c33b6a9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/moduleroot/.rspec.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
---color
---format documentation