diff --git a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
index 990a49ab377..ae8b501373c 100755
--- a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
+++ b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ function personality_globals
     HBASE_HADOOP3_VERSIONS=""
   elif [[ ${PATCH_BRANCH} = branch-2* ]]; then
     HBASE_HADOOP2_VERSIONS="2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7.1 2.7.2 2.7.3"
-    HBASE_HADOOP3_VERSIONS="3.0.0-alpha3"
+    HBASE_HADOOP3_VERSIONS="3.0.0-alpha4"
   else # master or a feature branch
     HBASE_HADOOP2_VERSIONS="2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7.1 2.7.2 2.7.3"
-    HBASE_HADOOP3_VERSIONS="3.0.0-alpha3"
+    HBASE_HADOOP3_VERSIONS="3.0.0-alpha4"
   fi
 
   # TODO use PATCH_BRANCH to select jdk versions to use.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 708cece3d3e..5e9e1759ba0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@
     <java.min.version>${compileSource}</java.min.version>
     <!-- Dependencies -->
     <hadoop-two.version>2.7.1</hadoop-two.version>
-    <hadoop-three.version>3.0.0-alpha2</hadoop-three.version>
+    <hadoop-three.version>3.0.0-alpha4</hadoop-three.version>
     <!-- These must be defined here for downstream build tools that don't look at profiles.
          They ought to match the values found in our default hadoop profile, which is
          currently "hadoop-2.0". See HBASE-15925 for more info. -->