diff --git a/.eclipse.templates/.classpath b/.eclipse.templates/.classpath
index 84222398f8d..9eb4b9e0b25 100644
--- a/.eclipse.templates/.classpath
+++ b/.eclipse.templates/.classpath
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/core"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="var" path="ANT_HOME/lib/ant.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="build/ivy/lib/Hadoop-Core/common/avro-1.2.0.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="build/ivy/lib/Hadoop-Core/common/avro-1.3.0.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="build/ivy/lib/Hadoop-Core/common/commons-cli-1.2.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="build/ivy/lib/Hadoop-Core/common/commons-codec-1.4.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="build/ivy/lib/Hadoop-Core/common/commons-el-1.0.jar"/>
diff --git a/ivy/hadoop-core-template.xml b/ivy/hadoop-core-template.xml
index d62939ff777..d17596c7f7d 100644
--- a/ivy/hadoop-core-template.xml
+++ b/ivy/hadoop-core-template.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2.0</version>
+      <version>1.3.0</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>