diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4cbb256ffd0b1..de27987c9f0ac 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ language: java
 matrix:
   include:
     - jdk: "oraclejdk8"
-      env: PROFILE="-Dhadoop.version=2.7.0 -Dscala-2.11 -Pinclude-tez -Pinclude-yarn-tests"
+      env: PROFILE="-Dhadoop.version=2.7.1 -Dscala-2.11 -Pinclude-tez -Pinclude-yarn-tests"
     - jdk: "oraclejdk8"
       env: PROFILE="-Dhadoop.version=2.5.0 -Pinclude-yarn-tests"
     - jdk: "openjdk7"
diff --git a/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/util/EnvironmentInformation.java b/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/util/EnvironmentInformation.java
index b8519b09f76e1..687f1a57a89f7 100644
--- a/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/util/EnvironmentInformation.java
+++ b/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/util/EnvironmentInformation.java
@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ public static void logEnvironmentInfo(Logger log, String componentName, String[]
 				}
 			}
 
+			log.info(" Classpath: " + System.getProperty("java.class.path"));
+
 			log.info("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/flink-shaded-hadoop/pom.xml b/flink-shaded-hadoop/pom.xml
index 1d405e3860628..7d54ef9b1a8f0 100644
--- a/flink-shaded-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/flink-shaded-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ under the License.
 							<shadedArtifactAttached>false</shadedArtifactAttached>
 							<createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
 							<dependencyReducedPomLocation>${project.basedir}/target/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</dependencyReducedPomLocation>
+							<promoteTransitiveDependencies>true</promoteTransitiveDependencies>
 							<filters>
 								<!-- Exclude signatures -->
 								<filter>
@@ -101,6 +102,17 @@ under the License.
 								<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
 								<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheNoticeResourceTransformer"/>
 							</transformers>
+							<artifactSet>
+								<includes>
+									<include>com.google.guava:*</include>
+									<include>com.google.protobuf:*</include>
+									<include>com.google.code.findbugs:*</include>
+									<include>asm:asm</include>
+									<include>io.netty:netty:*</include>
+									<include>org.apache.curator:*</include>
+									<include>org.apache.hadoop:*</include>
+								</includes>
+							</artifactSet>
 							<relocations>
 								<relocation>
 									<pattern>com.google</pattern>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 95c7b6e6ff8bb..aedae481e7d38 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ under the License.
 		<tez.version>0.6.1</tez.version>
 		<zookeeper.version>3.4.6</zookeeper.version>
 		<curator.version>2.8.0</curator.version>
+		<jackson.version>2.4.2</jackson.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<dependencies>
@@ -350,6 +351,24 @@ under the License.
 				<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
 				<version>4.2</version>
 			</dependency>
+
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+				<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+				<version>${jackson.version}</version>
+			</dependency>
+
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+				<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+				<version>${jackson.version}</version>
+			</dependency>
+
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+				<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+				<version>${jackson.version}</version>
+			</dependency>
 		</dependencies>
 	</dependencyManagement>