diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index c98c510..3ea149e 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -174,14 +174,12 @@
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
-			<version>0.20.2</version>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
 			<type>jar</type>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hadoop-test</artifactId>
-			<version>0.20.2</version>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultUtils.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultUtils.java
index a7c4fa0..3707e12 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultUtils.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultUtils.java
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
-import com.sun.el.parser.ParseException;
-
+import org.apache.http.ParseException;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.api.common.APIFramework.DisplayFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.api.http.servlet.APIServlet;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.algebricks.common.exceptions.AlgebricksException;
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java b/asterix-app/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
index 2318a04..34a6fea 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsConstants.StartupOption;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsServerConstants.StartupOption;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputSplit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 
@@ -64,7 +64,13 @@
         conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
         conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
         cleanupLocal();
-        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(nameNodePort, conf, numDataNodes, true, true, StartupOption.REGULAR, null);
+        //this constructor is deprecated in hadoop 2x 
+        //dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(nameNodePort, conf, numDataNodes, true, true, StartupOption.REGULAR, null);
+        MiniDFSCluster.Builder build = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(conf);
+        build.nameNodePort(nameNodePort);
+        build.numDataNodes(numDataNodes);
+        build.startupOption(StartupOption.REGULAR);
+        dfsCluster = build.build();
         dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
         loadData();
     }
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml
index bff9a3e..4f3f777 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 <property>
 	<name>dfs.block.size</name>
-	<value>65536</value>
+	<value>1048576</value>
 </property>
 
 </configuration>
diff --git a/asterix-common/pom.xml b/asterix-common/pom.xml
index e0adea2..ff393b2 100644
--- a/asterix-common/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-common/pom.xml
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-			<version>1.4</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
diff --git a/asterix-events/pom.xml b/asterix-events/pom.xml
index adfa543..6f74809 100644
--- a/asterix-events/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-events/pom.xml
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-			<version>1.4</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
diff --git a/asterix-external-data/pom.xml b/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
index 846bfc6..25337e7 100644
--- a/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
@@ -130,8 +130,7 @@
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
-			<version>0.20.2</version>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
@@ -176,7 +175,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
 			<artifactId>hive-exec</artifactId>
-			<version>0.11.0</version>
+			<version>0.13.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.jdo</groupId>
diff --git a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/dataset/adapter/HDFSAdapter.java b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/dataset/adapter/HDFSAdapter.java
index 91e86dc..e0628be 100644
--- a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/dataset/adapter/HDFSAdapter.java
+++ b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/dataset/adapter/HDFSAdapter.java
@@ -88,4 +88,4 @@
         }
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/AbstractHDFSReader.java b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/AbstractHDFSReader.java
index 0d340a3..b6bc2c0 100644
--- a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/AbstractHDFSReader.java
+++ b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/AbstractHDFSReader.java
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@
             @Override
             public void progress() {
             }
+
+            public float getProgress() {
+                return 0.0f;
+            }
         };
 
         return reporter;
diff --git a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/TextualFullScanDataReader.java b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/TextualFullScanDataReader.java
index e80adb0..ee1e3ee 100644
--- a/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/TextualFullScanDataReader.java
+++ b/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/external/indexing/input/TextualFullScanDataReader.java
@@ -204,8 +204,13 @@
             @Override
             public void progress() {
             }
+
+            @Override
+            public float getProgress() {
+                return 0.0f;
+            }
         };
 
         return reporter;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/asterix-installer/pom.xml b/asterix-installer/pom.xml
index 2181b02..87bd705 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-installer/pom.xml
@@ -234,7 +234,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-			<version>1.4</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
diff --git a/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 58ce450..ad9cb15 100644
--- a/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.2</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>    
 </project>
diff --git a/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml b/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
index 8b4d520..4fc6dad 100644
--- a/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
   		<artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-  		<version>2.2.1</version>
   		<type>jar</type>
   		<scope>compile</scope>
   	</dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-maven-plugins/record-manager-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/asterix-maven-plugins/record-manager-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index 858fbfa..60e9940 100644
--- a/asterix-maven-plugins/record-manager-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-maven-plugins/record-manager-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -44,22 +44,20 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.2</version>
+      <version>2.2.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-project</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.2</version>
+      <version>2.2.1</version>
     </dependency>
 	<dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20090211</version>
       <type>jar</type>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>    
diff --git a/asterix-metadata/pom.xml b/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
index e657e26..624ff38 100644
--- a/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
+			<type>jar</type>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
 			<artifactId>hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
@@ -74,12 +80,5 @@
                         <version>${hyracks.version}</version>
                 </dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
-			<version>0.20.2</version>
-			<type>jar</type>
-			<scope>compile</scope>
-		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/asterix-runtime/pom.xml b/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
index c9ace97..d2e3e00 100644
--- a/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
@@ -160,8 +160,7 @@
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-			<artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
-			<version>0.20.2</version>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-tools/pom.xml b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
index 886dbf7..22e1509 100644
--- a/asterix-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
@@ -104,6 +104,35 @@
 		</plugins>
 	</build>
 
+	<repositories>
+		<repository>
+			<id>central</id>
+			<url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
+			<releases>
+				<enabled>true</enabled>
+			</releases>
+			<snapshots>
+				<enabled>false</enabled>
+			</snapshots>
+		</repository>
+		<repository>
+			<releases>
+				<enabled>true</enabled>
+				<updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
+				<checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>
+			</releases>
+			<snapshots>
+				<enabled>false</enabled>
+				<updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
+				<checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
+			</snapshots>
+			<id>HDPReleases</id>
+			<name>HDP Releases</name>
+			<url>http://repo.hortonworks.com/content/repositories/releases</url>
+			<layout>default</layout>
+		</repository>
+	</repositories>
+
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
@@ -130,6 +159,66 @@
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+			<artifactId>asterix-metadata</artifactId>
+			<version>0.8.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+			<artifactId>asterix-events</artifactId>
+			<version>0.8.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-yarn-common</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-yarn-client</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+			<version>1.4</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-net</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
+			<version>3.1</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
+			<version>3.2.1</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
+			<version>1.6</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
+			<version>1.2</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-math</artifactId>
+			<version>2.1</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
 			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
 			<version>4.2.2</version>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 21e7647..ad763e1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   
   <properties>
-    <algebricks.version>0.2.13</algebricks.version>
-    <hyracks.version>0.2.13</hyracks.version>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <jvm.extraargs />
     <runSlowAQLTests>false</runSlowAQLTests>
 
@@ -33,6 +32,14 @@
     <invalid.tests>**/DmlTest.java</invalid.tests>
     <global.test.includes>**/*TestSuite.java,**/*Test.java,${execution.tests}</global.test.includes>
     <global.test.excludes>${optimizer.tests},${metadata.tests},${invalid.tests}</global.test.excludes>
+    <!-- Versions under dependencymanagement or used in many projects via properties -->
+    <algebricks.version>0.2.14-SNAPSHOT</algebricks.version>
+    <hyracks.version>0.2.14-SNAPSHOT</hyracks.version>
+    <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
+    <junit.version>4.8.1</junit.version>
+    <commons.io.version>2.4</commons.io.version>
+    <servlet.api.version>2.5</servlet.api.version>
+    <json.version>20090211</json.version>
   </properties>
 
 	<build>
@@ -222,8 +229,38 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.8.1</version>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
           </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.1</version>
+          </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-common</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-client</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+		  <dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+			<version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+		  </dependency>
     		<dependency>
     			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
     			<artifactId>algebricks-compiler</artifactId>
@@ -314,15 +351,20 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.json</groupId>
 			<artifactId>json</artifactId>
-			<version>20090211</version>
+			<version>${json.version}</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
 			<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>2.5</version>
+			<version>${servlet.api.version}</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 		</dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons.io.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     	</dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
 </project>