diff --git a/jvm-packages/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
index d4d1bde7d..5853c960f 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
         <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
         <maven.version>3.3.9</maven.version>
     </properties>
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>apache_maven</id>
+            <name>apache maven</name>
+            <url>http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
     <modules>
         <module>xgboost4j</module>
         <module>xgboost4j-example</module>
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@
                 <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
             </activation>
             <properties>
-                <spark.version>2.0.0</spark.version>
+                <spark.version>2.0.1</spark.version>
                 <flink.suffix>_2.11</flink.suffix>
                 <scala.version>2.11.8</scala.version>
                 <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>