diff --git a/client/pom.xml b/client/pom.xml
index 235dcea0..ce453f42 100644
--- a/client/pom.xml
+++ b/client/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ limitations under the License.
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
-      <version>1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>1.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
diff --git a/client/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/client/shell/SqoopFunction.java b/client/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/client/shell/SqoopFunction.java
index af0579d4..200b3eeb 100644
--- a/client/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/client/shell/SqoopFunction.java
+++ b/client/src/main/java/org/apache/sqoop/client/shell/SqoopFunction.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
-import org.apache.commons.cli.DefaultParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ protected CommandLine parseOptions(Options options,
       args[i - start] = iterator.next();
     }
 
-    CommandLineParser parser = new DefaultParser();
+    CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
     CommandLine line;
     try {
       line = parser.parse(options, args);
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ protected CommandLine parseOptions(Options options,
     }
     return line;
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}