diff --git a/external/mqtt/pom.xml b/external/mqtt/pom.xml
index b3ba72a0087adaa28eecbff8c7cbe41e008464ef..d3a2bf5825b08ee99a08f595dc6fba4c48befd42 100644
--- a/external/mqtt/pom.xml
+++ b/external/mqtt/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.paho</groupId>
       <artifactId>org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0.1</version>
+      <version>1.0.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scalacheck</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9c975a45f8d234e6167bf82ad32895bf0722f96e..0eac2127543207b3eac3c743b8c0213bf28a43e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -226,93 +226,6 @@
         <enabled>false</enabled>
       </snapshots>
     </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>apache-repo</id>
-      <name>Apache Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>jboss-repo</id>
-      <name>JBoss Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>mqtt-repo</id>
-      <name>MQTT Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-releases</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>cloudera-repo</id>
-      <name>Cloudera Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/cloudera-repos</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>spark-hive-staging</id>
-      <name>Staging Repo for Hive 1.2.1 (Spark Version)</name>
-      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/orgspark-project-1113</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>mapr-repo</id>
-      <name>MapR Repository</name>
-      <url>http://repository.mapr.com/maven/</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <!-- returning unauthorized on some operations -->
-    <repository>
-      <id>spring-releases</id>
-      <name>Spring Release Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-    <!-- For transitive dependencies brougt by parquet-thrift -->
-    <repository>
-      <id>twttr-repo</id>
-      <name>Twttr Repository</name>
-      <url>http://maven.twttr.com</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
   </repositories>
   <pluginRepositories>
     <pluginRepository>
diff --git a/project/SparkBuild.scala b/project/SparkBuild.scala
index 5d4f19ab14a2988339fbb5353242e8da08dcb55a..4c34c888cfd5e15c091ac6d3da13d4ebeffbbd3e 100644
--- a/project/SparkBuild.scala
+++ b/project/SparkBuild.scala
@@ -141,7 +141,12 @@ object SparkBuild extends PomBuild {
     publishMavenStyle := true,
     unidocGenjavadocVersion := "0.9-spark0",
 
-    resolvers += Resolver.mavenLocal,
+    // Override SBT's default resolvers:
+    resolvers := Seq(
+      DefaultMavenRepository,
+      Resolver.mavenLocal
+    ),
+    externalResolvers := resolvers.value,
     otherResolvers <<= SbtPomKeys.mvnLocalRepository(dotM2 => Seq(Resolver.file("dotM2", dotM2))),
     publishLocalConfiguration in MavenCompile <<= (packagedArtifacts, deliverLocal, ivyLoggingLevel) map {
       (arts, _, level) => new PublishConfiguration(None, "dotM2", arts, Seq(), level)
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 15ba3a36d51ca0fbcbc8ed84a026228fe919aab7..822a7c4a82d5e2f41cbd47e26cae404432bfa673 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-resolvers += Resolver.url("artifactory", url("http://scalasbt.artifactoryonline.com/scalasbt/sbt-plugin-releases"))(Resolver.ivyStylePatterns)
-
-resolvers += "Typesafe Repository" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/"
-
-resolvers += "sonatype-releases" at "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/"
-
 addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.11.2")
 
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.2.0")