diff --git a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
index bd2bcb8186..de416fa840 100644
--- a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # Dockerfile for installing the necessary dependencies for building Hadoop.
 # See BUILDING.txt.
 
-FROM ubuntu:bionic
+FROM ubuntu:xenial
 
 WORKDIR /root
 
@@ -44,11 +44,9 @@ ENV DEBCONF_TERSE true
 RUN apt-get -q update \
     && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends \
         apt-utils \
-        bats \
         build-essential \
         bzip2 \
         clang \
-        cmake \
         curl \
         doxygen \
         fuse \
@@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ RUN apt-get -q update \
         libsasl2-dev \
         libsnappy-dev \
         libssl-dev \
-        libsnappy-dev \
         libtool \
         libzstd1-dev \
         locales \
@@ -78,8 +75,8 @@ RUN apt-get -q update \
         python-setuptools \
         python-wheel \
         rsync \
-        shellcheck \
         software-properties-common \
+        snappy \
         sudo \
         valgrind \
         zlib1g-dev \
@@ -96,8 +93,20 @@ RUN apt-get -q update \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+
 ######
-# Install Google Protobuf 3.7.1 (3.0.0 ships with Bionic)
+# Install cmake 3.1.0 (3.5.1 ships with Xenial)
+######
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/cmake \
+    && curl -L -s -S \
+      https://cmake.org/files/v3.1/cmake-3.1.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
+      -o /opt/cmake.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf /opt/cmake.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/cmake
+ENV CMAKE_HOME /opt/cmake
+ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/cmake/bin"
+
+######
+# Install Google Protobuf 3.7.1 (2.6.0 ships with Xenial)
 ######
 # hadolint ignore=DL3003
 RUN mkdir -p /opt/protobuf-src \
@@ -114,7 +123,7 @@ ENV PROTOBUF_HOME /opt/protobuf
 ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/protobuf/bin"
 
 ######
-# Install Apache Maven 3.6.0 (3.6.0 ships with Bionic)
+# Install Apache Maven 3.3.9 (3.3.9 ships with Xenial)
 ######
 # hadolint ignore=DL3008
 RUN apt-get -q update \
@@ -122,11 +131,9 @@ RUN apt-get -q update \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 ENV MAVEN_HOME /usr
-# JAVA_HOME must be set in Maven >= 3.5.0 (MNG-6003)
-ENV JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
 
 ######
-# Install findbugs 3.1.0 (3.1.0 ships with Bionic)
+# Install findbugs 3.0.1 (3.0.1 ships with Xenial)
 # Ant is needed for findbugs
 ######
 # hadolint ignore=DL3008
@@ -136,6 +143,25 @@ RUN apt-get -q update \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 ENV FINDBUGS_HOME /usr
 
+####
+# Install shellcheck (0.4.6, the latest as of 2017-09-26)
+####
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN add-apt-repository -y ppa:hvr/ghc \
+    && apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends shellcheck ghc-8.0.2 \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+####
+# Install bats (0.4.0, the latest as of 2017-09-26, ships with Xenial)
+####
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends bats \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 ####
 # Install pylint at fixed version (2.0.0 removed python2 support)
 # https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2294