diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54a30de7da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+os: linux
+dist: focal
+arch: arm64-graviton2
+group: edge
+virt: vm
+language: generic
+sudo: false
+
+addons:
+  apt:
+    update: true
+    packages:
+      - openjdk-8-jdk
+      - ant
+      - ant-optional
+
+before_script:
+  - lscpu
+  - export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-${TRAVIS_CPU_ARCH}"
+  - export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"
+  - java -version
+  - ant -version
+
+script:
+  - ant clean test-unit
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 800d21eaec..056b8ca62a 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -181,12 +181,10 @@
     <dependency org="org.apache.avro" name="trevni-core" rev="${avro.version}"
       conf="compile->default;checkstyle->master">
       <artifact name="trevni-core" ext="jar" />
-      <artifact name="trevni-core" type="test-jar" ext="jar" m:classifier="tests"/>
     </dependency>
     <dependency org="org.apache.avro" name="trevni-avro" rev="${avro.version}"
       conf="compile->default;checkstyle->master">
       <artifact name="trevni-avro" ext="jar" />
-      <artifact name="trevni-avro" type="test-jar" ext="jar" m:classifier="tests"/>
       <exclude org="org.apache.hadoop" module="hadoop-core"/>
     </dependency>
     <dependency org="org.apache.avro" name="avro-tools" rev="${avro.version}"
diff --git a/ivy/libraries.properties b/ivy/libraries.properties
index dd331079d4..ff60e4ad37 100644
--- a/ivy/libraries.properties
+++ b/ivy/libraries.properties
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ accumulo15.version=1.5.0
 apacheant.version=1.7.1
 apacherat.version=0.8
 automaton.version=1.11-8
-avro.version=1.7.5
+avro.version=1.8.2
 basjes-httpdlog-pigloader.version=5.0
 commons-beanutils.version=1.7.0
 commons-cli.version=1.2
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ jsr311-api.version=1.1.1
 mockito.version=1.8.4
 jansi.version=1.9
 asm.version=3.3.1
-snappy-java.version=1.1.1.3
+snappy-java.version=1.1.8.4
 tez.version=0.7.0
 parquet-pig-bundle.version=1.9.0
-snappy.version=0.2
+snappy.version=0.4
 leveldbjni.version=1.8
 curator.version=2.6.0
 htrace.version=3.1.0-incubating
diff --git a/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/avro/AvroRecordWriter.java b/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/avro/AvroRecordWriter.java
index 144c510173..e980c66c52 100644
--- a/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/avro/AvroRecordWriter.java
+++ b/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/avro/AvroRecordWriter.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 
 import static org.apache.avro.file.DataFileConstants.DEFAULT_SYNC_INTERVAL;
 import static org.apache.avro.file.DataFileConstants.DEFLATE_CODEC;
-import static org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroOutputFormat.DEFAULT_DEFLATE_LEVEL;
 import static org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroOutputFormat.DEFLATE_LEVEL_KEY;
 import static org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroOutputFormat.SYNC_INTERVAL_KEY;
 
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ static void configureDataFileWriter(DataFileWriter<GenericData.Record> writer,
       JobConf job) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
     if (FileOutputFormat.getCompressOutput(job)) {
       int level = job.getInt(DEFLATE_LEVEL_KEY,
-          DEFAULT_DEFLATE_LEVEL);
+          CodecFactory.DEFAULT_DEFLATE_LEVEL);
       String codecName = job.get(AvroJob.OUTPUT_CODEC, DEFLATE_CODEC);
       CodecFactory factory = codecName.equals(DEFLATE_CODEC)
         ? CodecFactory.deflateCodec(level)