diff --git a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
index 6d1b87f932d..1d8b7fbd9a1 100755
--- a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
+++ b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ function personality_modules
   clear_personality_queue
 
   extra="-DHBasePatchProcess"
+  if [[ "${PATCH_BRANCH}" = branch-1* ]]; then
+    extra="${extra} -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2"
+  fi
 
   if [[ -n "${HADOOP_PROFILE}" ]]; then
     extra="${extra} -Dhadoop.profile=${HADOOP_PROFILE}"
diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/developer.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/developer.adoc
index 6d0a7d1a56b..935d6e61cdb 100644
--- a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/developer.adoc
+++ b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/developer.adoc
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ mvn -DskipTests package assembly:single deploy
 
 [[build.gotchas]]
 ==== Build Gotchas
-
+===== Maven Site failure
 If you see `Unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm'`, ignore it.
 It's not an error.
 It is link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSITE-286[officially ugly] though.