diff --git a/hbase-client/pom.xml b/hbase-client/pom.xml
index 796fc23d7d61..633377146b12 100644
--- a/hbase-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-client/pom.xml
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.github.stephenc.jcip</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <optional>true</optional>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-server/pom.xml b/hbase-server/pom.xml
index 71dd5126747b..cea04d0bb2d2 100644
--- a/hbase-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-server/pom.xml
@@ -194,6 +194,12 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.github.stephenc.jcip</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <optional>true</optional>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.ben-manes.caffeine</groupId>
       <artifactId>caffeine</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f0e197958e4d..e020314cde63 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@
     <maven-owasp-plugin.version>12.1.0</maven-owasp-plugin.version>
     <os.maven.version>1.7.1</os.maven.version>
     <findbugs-annotations.version>1.3.9-1</findbugs-annotations.version>
+    <jcip-annotations.version>1.0-1</jcip-annotations.version>
     <spotbugs.version>4.7.3</spotbugs.version>
     <spotbugs.maven.version>4.7.2.1</spotbugs.maven.version>
     <surefire.version>3.5.3</surefire.version>
@@ -1434,6 +1435,11 @@
         <artifactId>findbugs-annotations</artifactId>
         <version>${findbugs-annotations.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.github.stephenc.jcip</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
+        <version>${jcip-annotations.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <!--
         Logging dependencies. In general, we use slf4j as the log facade in HBase, so all sub
         modules should depend on slf4j-api at compile scope, and then depend on log4j-slf4j-impl