diff --git a/external/avro/pom.xml b/external/avro/pom.xml
index ad7df1f49ac4..8f118ba48201 100644
--- a/external/avro/pom.xml
+++ b/external/avro/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
-  <artifactId>spark-sql-avro_2.11</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>spark-avro_2.11</artifactId>
   <properties>
     <sbt.project.name>avro</sbt.project.name>
   </properties>
diff --git a/external/avro/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/avro/AvroFileFormat.scala b/external/avro/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/avro/AvroFileFormat.scala
index b043252f49af..c6b3c13be514 100755
--- a/external/avro/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/avro/AvroFileFormat.scala
+++ b/external/avro/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/avro/AvroFileFormat.scala
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ private[avro] class AvroFileFormat extends FileFormat with DataSourceRegister {
       spark: SparkSession,
       options: Map[String, String],
       files: Seq[FileStatus]): Option[StructType] = {
-    val conf = spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration
+    val conf = spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf()
     val parsedOptions = new AvroOptions(options, conf)
 
     // Schema evolution is not supported yet. Here we only pick a single random sample file to