diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index c9e7e9b11a0..0048cc5bfc1 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
     <maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>
     <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
 
-    <maven-clean-plugin.version>2.5</maven-clean-plugin.version>
+    <maven-clean-plugin.version>3.1.0</maven-clean-plugin.version>
     <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
     <maven-install-plugin.version>2.5.1</maven-install-plugin.version>
     <maven-resources-plugin.version>2.6</maven-resources-plugin.version>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
index 06477c7738f..58b4b3d534f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-ui/pom.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
 
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0.0</version>
         <configuration>
           <skip>${keepUIBuildCache}</skip>
           <followSymLinks>false</followSymLinks>