diff --git a/itests/hive-unit/pom.xml b/itests/hive-unit/pom.xml
index 103975fd85c..e07c9cc3703 100644
--- a/itests/hive-unit/pom.xml
+++ b/itests/hive-unit/pom.xml
@@ -466,6 +466,10 @@
com.esotericsoftware.kryo
kryo
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+
diff --git a/itests/qtest-spark/pom.xml b/itests/qtest-spark/pom.xml
index 60d032d1e49..ed402f8a370 100644
--- a/itests/qtest-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/itests/qtest-spark/pom.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
commons-logging
commons-logging
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+
diff --git a/kryo-registrator/pom.xml b/kryo-registrator/pom.xml
index a56ce7cc64d..1f94f5ac85a 100644
--- a/kryo-registrator/pom.xml
+++ b/kryo-registrator/pom.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@
net.java.dev.jets3t
jets3t
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 29cde34b743..72746fd1fdd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -983,6 +983,10 @@
org.apache.hadoop
hadoop-core
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+
diff --git a/ql/pom.xml b/ql/pom.xml
index e08439269f9..5b9087e554f 100644
--- a/ql/pom.xml
+++ b/ql/pom.xml
@@ -745,6 +745,10 @@
org.glassfish.jersey.core
*
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+
diff --git a/spark-client/pom.xml b/spark-client/pom.xml
index 33d03b94e73..bd1d1213ff4 100644
--- a/spark-client/pom.xml
+++ b/spark-client/pom.xml
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@
com.fasterxml.jackson.module
jackson-module-scala_${scala.binary.version}
+
+ org.json4s
+ json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}
+