diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ff2c86a960aa..129e95af5d74 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
     <!-- Include arrow for LlapOutputFormatService -->
     <arrow.version>0.10.0</arrow.version>
     <avatica.version>1.12.0</avatica.version>
-    <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
+    <avro.version>1.9.2</avro.version>
     <bonecp.version>0.8.0.RELEASE</bonecp.version>
     <calcite.version>1.19.0</calcite.version>
     <datanucleus-api-jdo.version>4.2.4</datanucleus-api-jdo.version>
@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
         <artifactId>avro-mapred</artifactId>
-        <classifier>hadoop2</classifier>
         <version>${avro.version}</version>
      </dependency>
       <dependency>
diff --git a/ql/pom.xml b/ql/pom.xml
index 0d57c25e1c3f..75360777ec6b 100644
--- a/ql/pom.xml
+++ b/ql/pom.xml
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro-mapred</artifactId>
-      <classifier>hadoop2</classifier>
       <version>${avro.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroDeserializer.java b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroDeserializer.java
index db8db1c9222a..8e882b41f313 100644
--- a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroDeserializer.java
+++ b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroDeserializer.java
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ private Object deserializePrimitive(Object datum, Schema fileSchema, Schema reco
 
       int scale = 0;
       try {
-        scale = fileSchema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_SCALE).asInt();
+        scale = (int) fileSchema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_SCALE);
       } catch(Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain scale value from file schema: " + fileSchema, ex);
       }
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ private Object deserializePrimitive(Object datum, Schema fileSchema, Schema reco
 
       int maxLength = 0;
       try {
-        maxLength = fileSchema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH).getValueAsInt();
+        maxLength = (int) fileSchema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH);
       } catch (Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain maxLength value for char field from file schema: " + fileSchema, ex);
       }
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ private Object deserializePrimitive(Object datum, Schema fileSchema, Schema reco
 
       maxLength = 0;
       try {
-        maxLength = fileSchema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH).getValueAsInt();
+        maxLength = (int) fileSchema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH);
       } catch (Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain maxLength value for varchar field from file schema: " + fileSchema, ex);
       }
diff --git a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/SchemaToTypeInfo.java b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/SchemaToTypeInfo.java
index 35d83bdb1af0..03f07bb8482d 100644
--- a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/SchemaToTypeInfo.java
+++ b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/SchemaToTypeInfo.java
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ public static TypeInfo generateTypeInfo(Schema schema,
       int precision = 0;
       int scale = 0;
       try {
-        precision = schema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_PRECISION).getIntValue();
-        scale = schema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_SCALE).getIntValue();
+        precision = (int) schema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_PRECISION);
+        scale = (int) schema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_SCALE);
       } catch (Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain scale value from file schema: " + schema, ex);
       }
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ public static TypeInfo generateTypeInfo(Schema schema,
       AvroSerDe.CHAR_TYPE_NAME.equalsIgnoreCase(schema.getProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_LOGICAL_TYPE))) {
       int maxLength = 0;
       try {
-        maxLength = schema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH).getValueAsInt();
+        maxLength = (int) schema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH);
       } catch (Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain maxLength value from file schema: " + schema, ex);
       }
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ public static TypeInfo generateTypeInfo(Schema schema,
       .equalsIgnoreCase(schema.getProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_LOGICAL_TYPE))) {
       int maxLength = 0;
       try {
-        maxLength = schema.getJsonProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH).getValueAsInt();
+        maxLength = (int) schema.getObjectProp(AvroSerDe.AVRO_PROP_MAX_LENGTH);
       } catch (Exception ex) {
         throw new AvroSerdeException("Failed to obtain maxLength value from file schema: " + schema, ex);
       }