diff --git a/hoodie-common/pom.xml b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
index 91a945203..0d29828ab 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-common/pom.xml
@@ -89,10 +89,6 @@
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-avro</artifactId>
@@ -114,11 +110,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
       <classifier>tests</classifier>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.13</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
diff --git a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/avro/MercifulJsonConverter.java b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/avro/MercifulJsonConverter.java
index b39d64174..827da3093 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/avro/MercifulJsonConverter.java
+++ b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/avro/MercifulJsonConverter.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 
 /**
  * Marjority of this is copied from https://github.com/jwills/avro-json/blob/master/src/main/java/com/cloudera/science/avro/common/JsonConverter.java
diff --git a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/HoodieJsonPayload.java b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/HoodieJsonPayload.java
index c8d89d96b..95b2b3992 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/HoodieJsonPayload.java
+++ b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/HoodieJsonPayload.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 package com.uber.hoodie.common;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.uber.hoodie.avro.MercifulJsonConverter;
 import com.uber.hoodie.common.model.HoodieRecordPayload;
 import com.uber.hoodie.exception.HoodieException;
@@ -30,8 +32,6 @@ import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.IndexedRecord;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 
 public class HoodieJsonPayload implements HoodieRecordPayload<HoodieJsonPayload> {
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public class HoodieJsonPayload implements HoodieRecordPayload<HoodieJsonPayload>
     if (!node.has(field)) {
       throw new HoodieException("Field :" + field + " not found in payload => " + node.toString());
     }
-    return node.get(field).getTextValue();
+    return node.get(field).textValue();
   }
 
   public String getRowKey(String keyColumnField) throws IOException {
diff --git a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/model/HoodieCommitMetadata.java b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/model/HoodieCommitMetadata.java
index 8a49c5c39..21c1816f5 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/model/HoodieCommitMetadata.java
+++ b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/model/HoodieCommitMetadata.java
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@
 
 package com.uber.hoodie.common.model;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -27,10 +31,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonAutoDetect;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonMethod;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationConfig.Feature;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 
 /**
  * All the metadata that gets stored along with a commit.
@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ public class HoodieCommitMetadata implements Serializable {
       log.info("partition path is null for " + partitionToWriteStats.get(null));
       partitionToWriteStats.remove(null);
     }
-    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
-    mapper.setVisibility(JsonMethod.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
-    return mapper.defaultPrettyPrintingWriter().writeValueAsString(this);
+    return getObjectMapper().writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(this);
   }
 
   public static HoodieCommitMetadata fromJsonString(String jsonStr) throws IOException {
@@ -126,10 +124,7 @@ public class HoodieCommitMetadata implements Serializable {
       // For empty commit file (no data or somethings bad happen).
       return new HoodieCommitMetadata();
     }
-    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
-    mapper.configure(Feature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
-    mapper.setVisibility(JsonMethod.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
-    return mapper.readValue(jsonStr, HoodieCommitMetadata.class);
+    return getObjectMapper().readValue(jsonStr, HoodieCommitMetadata.class);
   }
 
   // Here the functions are named "fetch" instead of "get", to get avoid of the json conversion.
@@ -235,4 +230,11 @@ public class HoodieCommitMetadata implements Serializable {
   public static HoodieCommitMetadata fromBytes(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
     return fromJsonString(new String(bytes, Charset.forName("utf-8")));
   }
+  
+  private static ObjectMapper getObjectMapper() {
+    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+    mapper.disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES);
+    mapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
+    return mapper;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hoodie-common/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/util/TestRecord.java b/hoodie-common/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/util/TestRecord.java
index 5df7f3252..ecbc94c85 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/util/TestRecord.java
+++ b/hoodie-common/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/util/TestRecord.java
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@
 
 package com.uber.hoodie.common.util;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonAutoDetect;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonMethod;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 
 @JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
 @SuppressWarnings({"unused", "FieldCanBeLocal", "MismatchedQueryAndUpdateOfCollection"})
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public class TestRecord implements Serializable {
 
   public String toJsonString() throws IOException {
     ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
-    mapper.setVisibility(JsonMethod.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
+    mapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
     return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(this);
   }
 }
diff --git a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
index 545ff9a59..3e8878ea9 100644
--- a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
@@ -148,10 +148,6 @@
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>