diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
index a6c95874c34f2..a0ccb55a0980b 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
@@ -436,12 +436,7 @@ private function addValidationSection(ArrayNodeDefinition $rootNode)
                     ->info('validation configuration')
                     ->canBeEnabled()
                     ->children()
-                        ->scalarNode('cache')
-                            ->beforeNormalization()
-                                // Can be removed in 3.0, once ApcCache support is dropped
-                                ->ifString()->then(function ($v) { return 'apc' === $v ? 'validator.mapping.cache.apc' : $v; })
-                            ->end()
-                        ->end()
+                        ->scalarNode('cache')->end()
                         ->booleanNode('enable_annotations')->defaultFalse()->end()
                         ->arrayNode('static_method')
                             ->defaultValue(array('loadValidatorMetadata'))
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/validator.xml b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/validator.xml
index ac153f91b27a5..d19a04a46c2f5 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/validator.xml
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/validator.xml
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
 
         <service id="validator.mapping.class_metadata_factory" alias="validator" public="false" />
 
-        <service id="validator.mapping.cache.apc" class="Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\Cache\ApcCache" public="false">
-            <argument>%validator.mapping.cache.prefix%</argument>
-        </service>
-
         <service id="validator.validator_factory" class="Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Validator\ConstraintValidatorFactory" public="false">
             <argument type="service" id="service_container" />
             <argument type="collection" />
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/full.xml b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/full.xml
index a7a42d0605c52..bc7535f209962 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/full.xml
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/Fixtures/xml/full.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         <framework:translator enabled="true" fallback="fr" logging="true">
             <framework:path>%kernel.root_dir%/Fixtures/translations</framework:path>
         </framework:translator>
-        <framework:validation enabled="true" cache="apc" />
+        <framework:validation enabled="true" cache="validator.mapping.cache.doctrine.apc" />
         <framework:annotations cache="file" debug="true" file-cache-dir="%kernel.cache_dir%/annotations" />
         <framework:serializer enabled="true" enable-annotations="true" cache="serializer.mapping.cache.apc" name-converter="serializer.name_converter.camel_case_to_snake_case" />
     </framework:config>
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTest.php b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTest.php
index 59bdbca6312c3..2f704546312d1 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/DependencyInjection/FrameworkExtensionTest.php
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ public function testValidation()
         $this->assertSame('addMethodMapping', $calls[4][0]);
         $this->assertSame(array('loadValidatorMetadata'), $calls[4][1]);
         $this->assertSame('setMetadataCache', $calls[5][0]);
-        $this->assertEquals(array(new Reference('validator.mapping.cache.apc')), $calls[5][1]);
+        $this->assertEquals(array(new Reference('validator.mapping.cache.doctrine.apc')), $calls[5][1]);
     }
 
     public function testValidationService()