diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 8370346c1c9..35b6f19d011 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
HADOOP-4952. Add new improved file system interface FileContext for the
application writer (Sanjay Radia via suresh)
+ HADOOP-6170. Add facility to tunnel Avro RPCs through Hadoop RPCs.
+ This permits one to take advantage of both Avro's RPC versioning
+ features and Hadoop's proven RPC scalability. (cutting)
+
IMPROVEMENTS
HADOOP-4565. Added CombineFileInputFormat to use data locality information
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 95c59023ecd..f17f66bab64 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -460,6 +460,14 @@
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 5647e235974..b1bf5c6aadf 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -271,15 +271,19 @@
+
diff --git a/ivy/libraries.properties b/ivy/libraries.properties
index 2d108bf761d..e2ce4f8f041 100644
--- a/ivy/libraries.properties
+++ b/ivy/libraries.properties
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
#These are the versions of our dependencies (in alphabetical order)
apacheant.version=1.7.0
+avro.version=1.1.0
+
checkstyle.version=4.2
commons-cli.version=1.2
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@ hsqldb.version=1.8.0.10
#ivy.version=2.0.0-beta2
ivy.version=2.0.0-rc2
+jackson.version=1.0.1
+
jasper.version=5.5.12
jsp.version=2.1
jsp-api.version=5.5.12
@@ -61,6 +65,8 @@ mina-core.version=2.0.0-M5
oro.version=2.0.8
+paranamer.version=1.5
+
rats-lib.version=0.6
servlet.version=4.0.6
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/avro/AvroGenericSerialization.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/avro/AvroGenericSerialization.java
index 2ea4cdd3435..52f25aec6a7 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/avro/AvroGenericSerialization.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/avro/AvroGenericSerialization.java
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public class AvroGenericSerialization extends AvroSerialization