diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4ff18afa227be..3c5818533371a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -843,7 +843,8 @@
       <id>yarn</id>
       <properties>
         <hadoop.major.version>2</hadoop.major.version>
-        <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
+        <hadoop.version>2.3.0</hadoop.version>
+        <yarn.version>2.3.0</yarn.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
       </properties>
       <modules>
diff --git a/yarn/pom.xml b/yarn/pom.xml
index 3342cb65edcd1..c11e5bfcb4b1a 100644
--- a/yarn/pom.xml
+++ b/yarn/pom.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-      <version>${yarn.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>