diff --git a/iis-wf/iis-wf-export-actionmanager/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/iis/wf/export/actionmanager/relation/citation/oozie_app/workflow.xml b/iis-wf/iis-wf-export-actionmanager/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/iis/wf/export/actionmanager/relation/citation/oozie_app/workflow.xml
index d242d7cf7..64b982ce7 100644
--- a/iis-wf/iis-wf-export-actionmanager/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/iis/wf/export/actionmanager/relation/citation/oozie_app/workflow.xml
+++ b/iis-wf/iis-wf-export-actionmanager/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/iis/wf/export/actionmanager/relation/citation/oozie_app/workflow.xml
@@ -42,16 +42,6 @@
             <name>oozieActionShareLibForSpark2</name>
             <description>oozie action sharelib for spark 2.*</description>
         </property>
-        <property>
-            <name>spark2ExtraListeners</name>
-            <value>com.cloudera.spark.lineage.NavigatorAppListener</value>
-            <description>spark 2.* extra listeners classname</description>
-        </property>
-        <property>
-            <name>spark2SqlQueryExecutionListeners</name>
-            <value>com.cloudera.spark.lineage.NavigatorQueryListener</value>
-            <description>spark 2.* sql query execution listeners classname</description>
-        </property>
         <property>
             <name>spark2YarnHistoryServerAddress</name>
             <description>spark 2.* yarn history server address</description>
@@ -94,10 +84,11 @@
                 --executor-memory=${sparkExecutorMemory}
                 --executor-cores=${sparkExecutorCores}
                 --driver-memory=${sparkDriverMemory}
-                --conf spark.extraListeners=${spark2ExtraListeners}
-                --conf spark.sql.queryExecutionListeners=${spark2SqlQueryExecutionListeners}
+                --conf spark.extraListeners=
+                --conf spark.sql.queryExecutionListeners=
                 --conf spark.yarn.historyServer.address=${spark2YarnHistoryServerAddress}
                 --conf spark.eventLog.dir=${nameNode}${spark2EventLogDir}
+                --conf spark.shuffle.useOldFetchProtocol=true
             </spark-opts>
             <arg>-inputCitationsPath=${input_citations}</arg>
             <arg>-outputRelationPath=${output_root_relations}/${action_set_id_citation_relations}</arg>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 311c23cd7..dcb4d8ac8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -387,7 +387,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spark-avro_2.12</artifactId>
                 <version>${iis.spark.version}</version>
+                <!-- FIXME not available in spark3 sharelib folder yet, commenting out until finishing the testing phase -->
+                <!--
                 <scope>provided</scope>
+                -->
             </dependency>
             
             <dependency>