diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
index f7992ed6086d..6e338936d37a 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies {
   implementation("com.github.spotbugs.snom:spotbugs-gradle-plugin:5.0.3")
 
   runtimeOnly("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-gradle-plugin:0.8.13")                                          // Enable proto code generation
-  runtimeOnly("com.commercehub.gradle.plugin:gradle-avro-plugin:0.11.0")                                   // Enable Avro code generation
+  runtimeOnly("com.github.davidmc24.gradle.plugin:gradle-avro-plugin:1.2.0")                                   // Enable Avro code generation
   runtimeOnly("com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle:5.6.1")                                       // Enable a code formatting plugin
   runtimeOnly("gradle.plugin.com.palantir.gradle.docker:gradle-docker:0.22.0")                             // Enable building Docker containers
   runtimeOnly("gradle.plugin.com.dorongold.plugins:task-tree:1.5")                                       // Adds a 'taskTree' task to print task dependency tree
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index 797d52f181af..45d69629662a 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -507,8 +507,8 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         antlr_runtime                               : "org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:4.7",
         args4j                                      : "args4j:args4j:2.33",
         auto_value_annotations                      : "com.google.auto.value:auto-value-annotations:$autovalue_version",
-        avro                                        : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.8.2",
-        avro_tests                                  : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.8.2:tests",
+        avro                                        : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.9.2",
+        avro_tests                                  : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.9.2:tests",
         aws_java_sdk_cloudwatch                     : "com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-cloudwatch:$aws_java_sdk_version",
         aws_java_sdk_core                           : "com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:$aws_java_sdk_version",
         aws_java_sdk_dynamodb                       : "com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-dynamodb:$aws_java_sdk_version",
@@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         vendored_guava_26_0_jre                     : "org.apache.beam:beam-vendor-guava-26_0-jre:0.1",
         vendored_calcite_1_28_0                     : "org.apache.beam:beam-vendor-calcite-1_28_0:0.2",
         woodstox_core_asl                           : "org.codehaus.woodstox:woodstox-core-asl:4.4.1",
+        xz_java                                     : "org.tukaani:xz:1.9",
         zstd_jni                                    : "com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.2-1",
         quickcheck_core                             : "com.pholser:junit-quickcheck-core:$quickcheck_version",
         quickcheck_generators                       : "com.pholser:junit-quickcheck-generators:$quickcheck_version",
@@ -2149,7 +2150,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 
     // TODO: Decide whether this should be inlined into the one project that relies on it
     // or be left here.
-    project.ext.applyAvroNature = { project.apply plugin: "com.commercehub.gradle.plugin.avro" }
+    project.ext.applyAvroNature = { project.apply plugin: "com.github.davidmc24.gradle.plugin.avro" }
 
     project.ext.applyAntlrNature = {
       project.apply plugin: 'antlr'
diff --git a/sdks/java/build-tools/src/main/resources/beam/suppressions.xml b/sdks/java/build-tools/src/main/resources/beam/suppressions.xml
index 63e15e0199d4..b12b5af92e9d 100644
--- a/sdks/java/build-tools/src/main/resources/beam/suppressions.xml
+++ b/sdks/java/build-tools/src/main/resources/beam/suppressions.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
   <suppress checks=".*" files=".+[\\\/]generated-src[\\\/].+\.java" />
   <suppress checks=".*" files=".+[\\\/]generated-sources[\\\/].+\.java" />
   <suppress checks=".*" files=".+[\\\/]generated-test-sources[\\\/].+\.java" />
+  <suppress checks=".*" files=".+[\\\/]generated-test-avro-java[\\\/].+\.java" />
 
   <!-- Suppression on JavadocMethod violations.
 
diff --git a/sdks/java/container/license_scripts/dep_urls_java.yaml b/sdks/java/container/license_scripts/dep_urls_java.yaml
index 256e78d8f67c..bbdfb6026dd4 100644
--- a/sdks/java/container/license_scripts/dep_urls_java.yaml
+++ b/sdks/java/container/license_scripts/dep_urls_java.yaml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ paranamer:
   '2.8':
     license: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paul-hammant/paranamer/master/LICENSE.txt"
 xz:
-  '1.5': # The original repo is down. This license is taken from https://tukaani.org/xz/java.html.
+  '1.9': # The original repo is down. This license is taken from https://tukaani.org/xz/java.html.
     license: "file://{}/xz/COPYING"
 jackson-bom:
   '2.13.0':
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
index 5265150b15e7..99ef64b70a1c 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
@@ -105,5 +105,6 @@ dependencies {
   shadowTest library.java.avro_tests
   shadowTest library.java.zstd_jni
   shadowTest library.java.jamm
+  shadowTest library.java.xz_java
   testRuntimeOnly library.java.slf4j_jdk14
 }
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoder.java b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoder.java
index 0005ec3075df..41ed182d5350 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoder.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoder.java
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ private Object readResolve() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
    * Serializable}'s usage of the {@link #writeReplace} method. Kryo doesn't utilize Java's
    * serialization and hence is able to encode the {@link Schema} object directly.
    */
-  private static class SerializableSchemaSupplier implements Serializable, Supplier<Schema> {
+  static class SerializableSchemaSupplier implements Serializable, Supplier<Schema> {
     // writeReplace makes this object serializable. This is a limitation of FindBugs as discussed
     // here:
     // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26156523/is-writeobject-not-neccesary-using-the-serialization-proxy-pattern
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/AvroSource.java b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/AvroSource.java
index 757c64dd77ab..05cc35ab411f 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/AvroSource.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/AvroSource.java
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@
  * the start offset of the block is greater than or equal to the start offset of the source and less
  * than the end offset of the source.
  *
- * <p>To use XZ-encoded Avro files, please include an explicit dependency on {@code xz-1.8.jar},
- * which has been marked as optional in the Maven {@code sdk/pom.xml}.
+ * <p>To use XZ-encoded Avro files, please include an explicit dependency on {@code xz-1.9.jar},
+ * which has been marked as optional in the Maven {@code org.apache.avro:avro} dependency.
  *
  * <pre>{@code
  * <dependency>
  *   <groupId>org.tukaani</groupId>
  *   <artifactId>xz</artifactId>
- *   <version>1.8</version>
+ *   <version>1.9</version>
  * </dependency>
  * }</pre>
  *
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/FromRowUsingCreator.java b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/FromRowUsingCreator.java
index 1e5e9b81326a..8b1fbbecc0ef 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/FromRowUsingCreator.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/FromRowUsingCreator.java
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
+import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.Instant;
 
 /** Function to convert a {@link Row} to a user type using a creator factory. */
 @Experimental(Kind.SCHEMAS)
@@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ public <ValueT> ValueT fromRow(
       return (ValueT)
           fromIterableValue(
               type.getCollectionElementType(), (Iterable) value, elementType, typeFactory);
+    } else if (TypeName.DATETIME.equals(type.getTypeName())) {
+      return fromDatetimeValue(value, fieldType);
     }
     if (TypeName.MAP.equals(type.getTypeName())) {
       return (ValueT)
@@ -200,6 +204,19 @@ private <ElementT> Iterable fromIterableValue(
                 typeFactory));
   }
 
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  private <ValueT> ValueT fromDatetimeValue(ValueT value, Type fieldType) {
+    if (fieldType.getTypeName().equals("java.time.LocalDate")) {
+      DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(value);
+      return (ValueT)
+          java.time.LocalDate.of(
+              dateTime.getYear(), dateTime.getMonthOfYear(), dateTime.getDayOfMonth());
+    } else if (fieldType.getTypeName().equals("java.time.Instant")) {
+      return (ValueT) java.time.Instant.ofEpochMilli(((Instant) value).getMillis());
+    }
+    return value;
+  }
+
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
   private Map<?, ?> fromMapValue(
       FieldType keyType,
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/values/RowWithGetters.java b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/values/RowWithGetters.java
index d105c744dd91..df0856b10af1 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/values/RowWithGetters.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/values/RowWithGetters.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.beam.sdk.values;
 
+import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -128,6 +129,14 @@ private <T> T getValue(FieldType type, Object fieldValue, @Nullable Integer cach
               cachedMaps.computeIfAbsent(
                   cacheKey, i -> getMapValue(type.getMapKeyType(), type.getMapValueType(), map))
           : (T) getMapValue(type.getMapKeyType(), type.getMapValueType(), map);
+    } else if (type.getTypeName().equals(TypeName.DATETIME)) {
+      if (fieldValue instanceof java.time.LocalDate) {
+        Instant instant = java.time.Instant.parse(fieldValue + "T00:00:00.00Z");
+        return (T) org.joda.time.Instant.ofEpochMilli(instant.toEpochMilli());
+      } else if (fieldValue instanceof java.time.Instant) {
+        return (T) org.joda.time.Instant.ofEpochMilli(((Instant) fieldValue).toEpochMilli());
+      }
+      return (T) fieldValue;
     } else {
       if (type.isLogicalType(OneOfType.IDENTIFIER)) {
         OneOfType oneOfType = type.getLogicalType(OneOfType.class);
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoderTest.java b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoderTest.java
index 1827a75c48d2..0af1bf899cf4 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoderTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/coders/AvroCoderTest.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;
 import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Input;
 import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Output;
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.JavaSerializer;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
@@ -85,7 +86,6 @@
 import org.hamcrest.TypeSafeMatcher;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
-import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ public class AvroCoderTest {
           "mystring",
           ByteBuffer.wrap(new byte[] {1, 2, 3, 4}),
           new fixed4(new byte[] {1, 2, 3, 4}),
-          new LocalDate(1979, 3, 14),
-          new DateTime().withDate(1979, 3, 14).withTime(1, 2, 3, 4),
+          java.time.LocalDate.of(1979, 3, 14),
+          java.time.Instant.ofEpochMilli(
+              new DateTime().withDate(1979, 3, 14).withTime(1, 2, 3, 4).getMillis()),
           TestEnum.abc,
           AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD,
           ImmutableList.of(AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD, AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD),
@@ -284,6 +285,7 @@ public void testKryoSerialization() throws Exception {
     // Kryo instantiation
     Kryo kryo = new Kryo();
     kryo.setInstantiatorStrategy(new StdInstantiatorStrategy());
+    kryo.addDefaultSerializer(AvroCoder.SerializableSchemaSupplier.class, JavaSerializer.class);
 
     // Serialization of object without any memoization
     ByteArrayOutputStream coderWithoutMemoizationBos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
@@ -350,10 +352,7 @@ public void testDisableReflectionEncoding() {
       AvroCoder.of(Pojo.class, false);
       fail("When userReclectApi is disable, schema should not be generated through reflection");
     } catch (AvroRuntimeException e) {
-      String message =
-          "avro.shaded.com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedExecutionException: "
-              + "org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: "
-              + "Not a Specific class: class org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.AvroCoderTest$Pojo";
+      String message = "Not a Specific class: class org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.AvroCoderTest$Pojo";
       assertEquals(message, e.getMessage());
     }
   }
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/AvroSchemaTest.java b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/AvroSchemaTest.java
index 417d45b48f52..83961c3ce8b0 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/AvroSchemaTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/AvroSchemaTest.java
@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ public String toString() {
           "mystring",
           ByteBuffer.wrap(BYTE_ARRAY),
           new fixed4(BYTE_ARRAY),
-          DATE,
-          DATE_TIME,
+          java.time.LocalDate.of(DATE.getYear(), DATE.getMonthOfYear(), DATE.getDayOfMonth()),
+          java.time.Instant.ofEpochMilli(DATE_TIME.getMillis()),
           TestEnum.abc,
           AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD,
           ImmutableList.of(AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD, AVRO_NESTED_SPECIFIC_RECORD),
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/utils/AvroUtilsTest.java b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/utils/AvroUtilsTest.java
index efdc09cc8abb..707291401e6d 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/utils/AvroUtilsTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/schemas/utils/AvroUtilsTest.java
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
 import org.apache.avro.Conversions;
 import org.apache.avro.LogicalType;
 import org.apache.avro.LogicalTypes;
-import org.apache.avro.RandomData;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema.Type;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecordBuilder;
 import org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData;
+import org.apache.avro.util.RandomData;
 import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.AvroCoder;
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public void avroToBeamRoundTrip(
       @From(RecordSchemaGenerator.class) org.apache.avro.Schema avroSchema) {
 
     Schema schema = AvroUtils.toBeamSchema(avroSchema);
-    Iterable iterable = new RandomData(avroSchema, 10);
+    Iterable iterable = new RandomData(avroSchema, 10, true);
     List<GenericRecord> records = Lists.newArrayList((Iterable<GenericRecord>) iterable);
 
     for (GenericRecord record : records) {
diff --git a/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/GcpApiSurfaceTest.java b/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/GcpApiSurfaceTest.java
index de8a6b845a32..468eba740042 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/GcpApiSurfaceTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/GcpApiSurfaceTest.java
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ public void testGcpApiSurface() throws Exception {
             classesInPackage("org.apache.avro"),
             classesInPackage("org.apache.beam"),
             classesInPackage("org.apache.commons.logging"),
-            classesInPackage("org.codehaus.jackson"),
             classesInPackage("org.joda.time"),
             Matchers.<Class<?>>equalTo(org.threeten.bp.Duration.class),
             Matchers.<Class<?>>equalTo(org.threeten.bp.format.ResolverStyle.class),
diff --git a/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/BigQueryAvroUtilsTest.java b/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/BigQueryAvroUtilsTest.java
index 88ad9be52073..13632c59fc40 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/BigQueryAvroUtilsTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/BigQueryAvroUtilsTest.java
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ public void testConvertGenericRecordToTableRow() throws Exception {
       }
       // After a Field is added to a Schema, it is assigned a position, so we can't simply reuse
       // the existing Field.
-      avroFields.add(new Schema.Field(field.name(), schema, field.doc(), field.defaultValue()));
+      avroFields.add(new Schema.Field(field.name(), schema, field.doc(), field.defaultVal()));
     }
     Schema avroSchema = Schema.createRecord(avroFields);