WIP: Upgrade Spark to 2.4.4: Upgrade dependencies

Author: tashoyan

pom.xml

@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@
         <scalastyle-maven-plugin.version>1.0.0</scalastyle-maven-plugin.version>
         <scalatest-maven-plugin.version>2.0.0</scalatest-maven-plugin.version>
 
-        <spark.version>2.4.0</spark.version>
+        <spark.version>2.4.4</spark.version>
         <spark.compat.version>2.4</spark.compat.version>
         <graphframes.version>0.7.0-spark${spark.compat.version}-s_${compiler.scala.compat.version}</graphframes.version>
         <flink.version>1.7.2</flink.version>
         <flink-shaded-jackson.version>2.7.9-5.0</flink-shaded-jackson.version>
         <scopt.version>3.7.1</scopt.version>
         <scalaj-http.version>2.4.1</scalaj-http.version>
-        <scala-parser-combinators.version>1.0.4</scala-parser-combinators.version>
+        <scala-parser-combinators.version>1.1.0</scala-parser-combinators.version>
         <scalatest.version>3.0.5</scalatest.version>
         <scalamock.version>4.1.0</scalamock.version>
         <scalactic.version>3.0.5</scalactic.version>
@@ -65,18 +65,18 @@
         <commons-lang.version>2.6</commons-lang.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.5</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-cli.version>1.3.1</commons-cli.version>
-        <javassist.version>3.19.0-GA</javassist.version>
+        <javassist.version>3.18.1-GA</javassist.version>
         <objenesis.version>2.5.1</objenesis.version>
         <chill.version>0.9.3</chill.version>
-        <snappy-java.version>1.1.7.1</snappy-java.version>
+        <snappy-java.version>1.1.7.3</snappy-java.version>
         <httpclient.version>4.2.5</httpclient.version>
         <httpcore.version>4.2.4</httpcore.version>
         <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.16</slf4j.version>
         <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
         <xz.version>1.5</xz.version>
         <hadoop.version>2.7.7</hadoop.version>
-        <jsr305.version>3.0.2</jsr305.version>
+        <jsr305.version>1.3.9</jsr305.version>
         <curator-recipes.version>2.7.1</curator-recipes.version>
         <commons-math3.version>3.4.1</commons-math3.version>
         <netty-all.version>4.1.17.Final</netty-all.version>
@@ -87,14 +87,14 @@
         <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>
         <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.6.7</fasterxml.jackson.version>
         <fasterxml.jackson-databind.version>2.6.7.1</fasterxml.jackson-databind.version>
-        <scala-xml.version>1.0.6</scala-xml.version>
+        <scala-xml.version>1.0.5</scala-xml.version>
         <commons-compress.version>1.8.1</commons-compress.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.6</commons-io.version>
         <!--json4s version is dictated by Spark-->
         <json4s.version>3.5.3</json4s.version>
-        <lz4-java.version>1.5.0</lz4-java.version>
+        <lz4-java.version>1.4.0</lz4-java.version>
         <zookeeper.version>3.4.13</zookeeper.version>
-        <zstd-jni.version>1.3.5-4</zstd-jni.version>
+        <zstd-jni.version>1.3.2-2</zstd-jni.version>
 
     </properties>