diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 8650e2d1f5..025f9b7194 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
         <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"/>
         <scm connection="${scm.connection}" developerConnection="${scm.developerConnection}" url="${scm.url}"/>
         <dependencyManagement>
-          <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.0.4.1"/>
+          <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.0.5"/>
           <dependency groupId="net.jpountz.lz4" artifactId="lz4" version="1.1.0"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.ning" artifactId="compress-lzf" version="0.8.4"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava" version="13.0.1"/>
diff --git a/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar b/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f2b757d7f..0000000000
Binary files a/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar b/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6dc413df20
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar differ
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/transport/RequestThreadPoolExecutor.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/transport/RequestThreadPoolExecutor.java
index 83c7c29661..faae28f7d6 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/transport/RequestThreadPoolExecutor.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/transport/RequestThreadPoolExecutor.java
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.cassandra.transport;
 
-import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor;
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public class RequestThreadPoolExecutor extends DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor
         super(DatabaseDescriptor.getNativeTransportMinThreads(),
               DatabaseDescriptor.getNativeTransportMaxThreads(),
               CORE_THREAD_TIMEOUT_SEC, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
-              new ArrayBlockingQueue(32), // Seems to help smooth latency compared to SynchronousQueue.
+              new LinkedBlockingQueue<Runnable>(32), // Seems to help smooth latency compared to SynchronousQueue.
               new NamedThreadFactory("Native-Transport-Requests"));
     }
 }