diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f42257265ede..bbca58a6cddf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1293,6 +1293,17 @@
       </properties>
     </profile>
 
+    <profile>
+      <id>hadoop-2.5</id>
+      <properties>
+        <hadoop.version>2.5.0</hadoop.version>
+        <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
+        <jets3t.version>0.9.2</jets3t.version>
+        <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
+        <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+
     <profile>
       <id>yarn</id>
       <modules>