diff --git a/kafka-eight/pom.xml b/kafka-eight/pom.xml
index 176db1bc868..1b247e4630a 100644
--- a/kafka-eight/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-eight/pom.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
+
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.druid</groupId>
             <artifactId>druid-api</artifactId>
@@ -53,6 +55,66 @@
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- kafka_2.9.2 0.8.0-beta1 is bad, it is not correctly pulling dependencies, do it manually here -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+            <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
+            <version>2.9.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sf.jopt-simple</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jopt-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>1.6.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+            <artifactId>scala-compiler</artifactId>
+            <version>2.9.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+            <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+            <version>3.3.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.101tec</groupId>
+            <artifactId>zkclient</artifactId>
+            <version>0.3</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.xerial.snappy</groupId>
+            <artifactId>snappy-java</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0.4.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
+            <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
+            <artifactId>metrics-annotation</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
+            <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
+            <artifactId>scalatest_2.9.2</artifactId>
+            <version>1.8</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+
         <!-- Tests -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>