diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 3086e74969..7e1685de40 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
     <commons-csv.version>1.9.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.14.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
-    <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
+    <commons-logging.version>1.2</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-math3.version>3.6.1</commons-math3.version>
     <commons-net.version>3.9.0</commons-net.version>
     <commons-text.version>1.10.0</commons-text.version>
@@ -1435,15 +1435,11 @@
           </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
-            <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-handler</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-transport-native-epoll</artifactId>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
@@ -1507,15 +1503,7 @@
           </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-handler</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>netty-transport-native-epoll</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
@@ -1596,6 +1584,12 @@
         <groupId>${leveldbjni.group}</groupId>
         <artifactId>leveldbjni-all</artifactId>
         <version>1.8</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.fusesource.hawtjni</groupId>
@@ -1958,11 +1952,23 @@
           <groupId>org.ehcache</groupId>
           <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
           <version>${ehcache.version}</version>
+          <exclusions>
+            <exclusion>
+              <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+              <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            </exclusion>
+          </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
           <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
           <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
           <version>${hikari.version}</version>
+          <exclusions>
+            <exclusion>
+              <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+              <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            </exclusion>
+          </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
@@ -2024,6 +2030,12 @@
          <groupId>org.jsonschema2pojo</groupId>
          <artifactId>jsonschema2pojo-core</artifactId>
          <version>${jsonschema2pojo.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.xerial.snappy</groupId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo-core/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo-core/pom.xml
index 5d6b614586..eecb4e34ec 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo-core/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo/hadoop-yarn-applications-mawo-core/pom.xml
@@ -93,25 +93,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-        <!-- otherwise seems to drag in junit 3.8.1 via jline -->
-          <groupId>junit</groupId>
-          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.sun.jdmk</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jmxtools</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jmxri</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>