diff --git a/cdap-app-fabric/pom.xml b/cdap-app-fabric/pom.xml
index 3a6c817ff9cb..df6063e10bcc 100644
--- a/cdap-app-fabric/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-app-fabric/pom.xml
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
       <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.2</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/batch/dataset/partitioned/DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter.java b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/batch/dataset/partitioned/DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter.java
index 23e0ba810e07..36004b4bf3f1 100644
--- a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/batch/dataset/partitioned/DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter.java
+++ b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/batch/dataset/partitioned/DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.PathFilter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.RemoteIterator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileAlreadyExistsException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InvalidJobConfException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
@@ -74,6 +75,15 @@ public class DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter extends FileOutputCommitter {
   public DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter(Path outputPath, TaskAttemptContext context)
       throws IOException {
     super(outputPath, context);
+
+    //This output committer only works with `mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.algorithm.version` = 1
+    //Since hadoop 3, by default it's 2. Fail early if it's set to 2.
+    if (isCommitJobRepeatable(context)){
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("DynamicPartitioningOutputCommitter requires the Hadoop conf " +
+                                           "`mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.algorithm.version` to be set to 1." +
+                                           "But Found 2.");
+    }
+
     this.taskContext = context;
     this.jobSpecificOutputPath = outputPath;
   }
diff --git a/cdap-formats/pom.xml b/cdap-formats/pom.xml
index 5371deb0c11f..eaa4fc72ceda 100644
--- a/cdap-formats/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-formats/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <version>2.13.4.2</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
diff --git a/cdap-runtime-ext-dataproc/pom.xml b/cdap-runtime-ext-dataproc/pom.xml
index aa066c5f24b5..ec504a3a1cb7 100644
--- a/cdap-runtime-ext-dataproc/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-runtime-ext-dataproc/pom.xml
@@ -135,16 +135,6 @@
       <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
       <artifactId>powermock-api-mockito2</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/cdap-security/pom.xml b/cdap-security/pom.xml
index 56d7a6506216..2c209f6cad5b 100644
--- a/cdap-security/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-security/pom.xml
@@ -89,22 +89,18 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
-      <version>${jetty9.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-security</artifactId>
-      <version>${jetty9.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
-      <version>${jetty9.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-jaspi</artifactId>
-      <version>${jetty9.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
@@ -114,7 +110,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-      <version>3.1.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.components</groupId>
@@ -182,12 +177,6 @@
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1.3</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/cdap-security/src/test/java/io/cdap/cdap/security/impersonation/UGIProviderTest.java b/cdap-security/src/test/java/io/cdap/cdap/security/impersonation/UGIProviderTest.java
index 6c2d0b4384ff..9f821d549948 100644
--- a/cdap-security/src/test/java/io/cdap/cdap/security/impersonation/UGIProviderTest.java
+++ b/cdap-security/src/test/java/io/cdap/cdap/security/impersonation/UGIProviderTest.java
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ public static void init() throws Exception {
     hConf.set(MiniDFSCluster.HDFS_MINIDFS_BASEDIR, TEMP_FOLDER.newFolder().getAbsolutePath());
     hConf.setBoolean("ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed", true);
     hConf.setBoolean("ignore.secure.ports.for.testing", true);
+    hConf.setInt("dfs.namenode.metrics.logger.period.seconds", -1);
+    hConf.setInt("dfs.datanode.metrics.logger.period.seconds", -1);
 
     miniDFSCluster = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(hConf).numDataNodes(1).build();
     miniDFSCluster.waitClusterUp();
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 771b45e07dbb..7a6be191a069 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
     <jetty9.version>9.4.51.v20230217</jetty9.version>
     <jline.version>2.12</jline.version>
     <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
+    <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version>
     <log4j2.slf4j.version>2.20.0</log4j2.slf4j.version>
     <pragmatists.version>1.0.5</pragmatists.version>
     <kafka.version>0.10.2.2</kafka.version>
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@
     <rs-api.version>2.0</rs-api.version>
     <!-- Please keep consistent with the one in Spark 3 -->
     <scala2.12.version>2.12.15</scala2.12.version>
-    <servlet.api.version>3.0.1</servlet.api.version>
+    <servlet.api.version>3.1.0</servlet.api.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.15</slf4j.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.1.7</snappy.version>
     <spark3.artifacts.dir>spark3_2.12</spark3.artifacts.dir>
@@ -1117,6 +1118,12 @@
         <version>${junit.version}</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+        <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
+        <version>${hamcrest.version}</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>pl.pragmatists</groupId>
         <artifactId>JUnitParams</artifactId>