diff --git a/bom/pom.xml b/bom/pom.xml
index d6e4609bf2c7..044ad5121a2e 100644
--- a/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/pom.xml
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
                 <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
-                <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
+                <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
diff --git a/http-clients/apache5-client/pom.xml b/http-clients/apache5-client/pom.xml
index 6cf5fce89759..b2d753e4fe97 100644
--- a/http-clients/apache5-client/pom.xml
+++ b/http-clients/apache5-client/pom.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@
 
     <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
     <name>AWS Java SDK :: HTTP Clients :: Apache5</name>
+    <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
+
+    <properties>
+        <awsjavasdk.version>${project.parent.version}</awsjavasdk.version>
+        <jre.version>1.8</jre.version>
+    </properties>
+
 
 <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/http-clients/pom.xml b/http-clients/pom.xml
index b736a7419c66..8f2abfee1933 100644
--- a/http-clients/pom.xml
+++ b/http-clients/pom.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bom-internal</artifactId>
-                <version>${project.version}</version>
+                <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
                 <type>pom</type>
                 <scope>import</scope>
             </dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e404ab6967b1..42b16028211a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -657,7 +657,6 @@
                             <includeModule>sdk-core</includeModule>
                             <includeModule>http-client-spi</includeModule>
                             <includeModule>apache-client</includeModule>
-                            <includeModule>apache5-client</includeModule>
                             <includeModule>netty-nio-client</includeModule>
                             <includeModule>url-connection-client</includeModule>
                             <includeModule>cloudwatch-metric-publisher</includeModule>
@@ -824,7 +823,7 @@
                 <spotbugs.skip>true</spotbugs.skip>
                 <skip.unit.tests>true</skip.unit.tests>
                 <mdep.analyze.skip>true</mdep.analyze.skip>
-                <japicmp.skip>true</japicmp.skip>
+                <japicmp.skip>false</japicmp.skip>
                 <maven.javadoc.skip>true</maven.javadoc.skip>
             </properties>
         </profile>
diff --git a/test/architecture-tests/pom.xml b/test/architecture-tests/pom.xml
index 2b3214b40add..6e848ba2ab17 100644
--- a/test/architecture-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/test/architecture-tests/pom.xml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
+            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
diff --git a/test/s3-benchmarks/pom.xml b/test/s3-benchmarks/pom.xml
index 35f79b159136..a577b120385e 100644
--- a/test/s3-benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/test/s3-benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
+            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/test/sdk-benchmarks/pom.xml b/test/sdk-benchmarks/pom.xml
index eb0d9001a4ad..24902894e28b 100644
--- a/test/sdk-benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/test/sdk-benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
+            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
diff --git a/test/tests-coverage-reporting/pom.xml b/test/tests-coverage-reporting/pom.xml
index 8ca4cf474d42..0250d34797c1 100644
--- a/test/tests-coverage-reporting/pom.xml
+++ b/test/tests-coverage-reporting/pom.xml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <artifactId>apache5-client</artifactId>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}</version>
+            <version>${awsjavasdk.version}-PREVIEW</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <artifactId>aws-sdk-java</artifactId>