diff --git a/build/dependencies.props b/build/dependencies.props
index e5153a3edc..1637fe4ebe 100644
--- a/build/dependencies.props
+++ b/build/dependencies.props
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
     <SystemReactiveLinqPackageVersion>3.1.1</SystemReactiveLinqPackageVersion>
     <SystemReflectionEmitPackageVersion>4.3.0</SystemReflectionEmitPackageVersion>
     <SystemRuntimeInteropServicesRuntimeInformationPackageVersion>4.3.0</SystemRuntimeInteropServicesRuntimeInformationPackageVersion>
+    <Utf8JsonPackageVersion>1.3.7</Utf8JsonPackageVersion>
     <VisualStudio_NewtonsoftJsonPackageVersion>9.0.1</VisualStudio_NewtonsoftJsonPackageVersion>
     <VSIX_MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCommonPackageVersion>2.7.0-beta3-62512-06</VSIX_MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCommonPackageVersion>
     <VSIX_MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCSharpFeaturesPackageVersion>2.7.0-beta3-62512-06</VSIX_MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCSharpFeaturesPackageVersion>
diff --git a/build/external-dependencies.props b/build/external-dependencies.props
index 9778abd642..10a465b964 100644
--- a/build/external-dependencies.props
+++ b/build/external-dependencies.props
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
     <ExternalDependency Include="System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow" Version="$(SystemThreadingTasksDataflowPackageVersion)" />
     <ExternalDependency Include="System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions" Version="$(SystemThreadingTasksExtensionsPackageVersion)" />
     <ExternalDependency Include="System.ValueTuple" Version="$(SystemValueTuplePackageVersion)" />
+    <ExternalDependency Include="Utf8Json" Version="$(Utf8JsonPackageVersion)" />
     <ExternalDependency Include="WindowsAzure.Storage" Version="$(WindowsAzureStoragePackageVersion)" />
     <ExternalDependency Include="xunit" Version="$(XunitPackageVersion)" />
     <ExternalDependency Include="xunit.abstractions" Version="$(XunitAbstractionsPackageVersion)" />