diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/pom.xml b/hadoop-maven-plugins/pom.xml
index b31d158c13..d6b18b4e35 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
   <name>Apache Hadoop Maven Plugins</name>
   <properties>
-    <maven.dependency.version>3.0</maven.dependency.version>
+    <maven.dependency.version>3.0.5</maven.dependency.version>
     <maven.plugin-tools.version>3.5.1</maven.plugin-tools.version>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
       <version>${maven.plugin-tools.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <!-- excluding dependency that conflicts with other maven
+             dependencies -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
@@ -60,16 +68,28 @@
       <version>${maven-shade-plugin.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
       <exclusions>
-        <!-- shade conflicts with itself and our other maven internals
-             by including a combination of 3.x and 2.x
-          -->
+        <!-- shade conflicts with itself and other maven internals so we simply
+             exclude shade's (older) copies of the dependencies -->
         <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-dependency-tree</artifactId>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-compat</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-model</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <!-- again, shade conflicts with itself on the transitives of this
-             dependency
-          -->
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.vafer</groupId>
           <artifactId>jdependency</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/resourcegz/ResourceGzMojo.java b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/resourcegz/ResourceGzMojo.java
index e7ab663e42..5bf84c21fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/resourcegz/ResourceGzMojo.java
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/resourcegz/ResourceGzMojo.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.maven.plugin.resourcegz;
 
-import com.google.inject.internal.util.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3695be05af..a250e64b8e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
     <maven-remote-resources-plugin.version>1.5</maven-remote-resources-plugin.version>
     <maven-resources-plugin.version>3.0.1</maven-resources-plugin.version>
     <apache-rat-plugin.version>0.12</apache-rat-plugin.version>
-    <wagon-ssh.version>1.0</wagon-ssh.version>
+    <wagon-ssh.version>2.4</wagon-ssh.version>
     <maven-clover2-plugin.version>3.3.0</maven-clover2-plugin.version>
     <maven-bundle-plugin.version>2.5.0</maven-bundle-plugin.version>
     <lifecycle-mapping.version>1.0.0</lifecycle-mapping.version>