diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 838f43d1bf..6095ee7c87 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -31,12 +31,7 @@
     <dependency org="org.apache.mahout.hadoop" name="hadoop-core" rev="0.20.1"/>
     <dependency org="commons-httpclient" name="commons-httpclient" rev="3.1"/>
 
-    <!-- FIXME: paranamer and jackson can be dropped after we're depending
-    on avro (since it depends on them). -->
-    <dependency org="com.thoughtworks.paranamer" conf="build->default"
-                name="paranamer-ant" rev="2.1"/>
-    <dependency org="org.codehaus.jackson"
-                name="jackson-mapper-asl" rev="1.4.0"/>
+    <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="avro" rev="1.3.0"/>
 
     <dependency org="com.google.collections" name="google-collections"
                 rev="1.0"/>
@@ -52,7 +47,6 @@
 
     <dependency org="org.apache.rat" name="apache-rat" rev="0.6"
                 conf="qa->default"/>
-    <dependency org="org.mortbay.jetty" name="jetty" rev="6.1.21"/>
   </dependencies>
 </ivy-module>
 
diff --git a/lib/avro-1.2.0-dev.jar b/lib/avro-1.2.0-dev.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index e9925db096..0000000000
Binary files a/lib/avro-1.2.0-dev.jar and /dev/null differ