diff --git a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
index 975de0ca3c..aa9c7fff12 100644
--- a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
@@ -2639,6 +2639,14 @@ namespace. To alias `replication start` to `gerrit replicate`:
 [[sshd]]
 === Section sshd
 
+[[sshd.backend]]sshd.backend::
++
+Starting from version 0.9.0 Apache SSHD project added support for NIO2
+IoSession. To use the new NIO2 session the `backend` option must be set
+to `NIO2`.
++
+By default, `MINA`.
+
 [[sshd.listenAddress]]sshd.listenAddress::
 +
 Specifies the local addresses the internal SSHD should listen
diff --git a/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/SshDaemon.java b/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/SshDaemon.java
index 6351280881..1969e2d48c 100644
--- a/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/SshDaemon.java
+++ b/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/SshDaemon.java
@@ -61,10 +61,11 @@ import org.apache.sshd.common.forward.TcpipServerChannel;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.future.CloseFuture;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.future.SshFutureListener;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.io.IoAcceptor;
-import org.apache.sshd.common.io.IoServiceFactory;
+import org.apache.sshd.common.io.IoServiceFactoryFactory;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.io.IoSession;
-import org.apache.sshd.common.io.mina.MinaServiceFactory;
+import org.apache.sshd.common.io.mina.MinaServiceFactoryFactory;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.io.mina.MinaSession;
+import org.apache.sshd.common.io.nio2.Nio2ServiceFactoryFactory;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.mac.HMACMD5;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.mac.HMACMD596;
 import org.apache.sshd.common.mac.HMACSHA1;
@@ -184,8 +185,13 @@ public class SshDaemon extends SshServer implements SshInfo, LifecycleListener {
     final String kerberosPrincipal = cfg.getString(
         "sshd", null, "kerberosPrincipal");
 
-    System.setProperty(IoServiceFactory.class.getName(),
-        MinaServiceFactory.class.getName());
+    SshSessionBackend backend = cfg.getEnum(
+        "sshd", null, "backend", SshSessionBackend.MINA);
+
+    System.setProperty(IoServiceFactoryFactory.class.getName(),
+        backend == SshSessionBackend.MINA
+            ? MinaServiceFactoryFactory.class.getName()
+            : Nio2ServiceFactoryFactory.class.getName());
 
     if (SecurityUtils.isBouncyCastleRegistered()) {
       initProviderBouncyCastle();
@@ -280,8 +286,10 @@ public class SshDaemon extends SshServer implements SshInfo, LifecycleListener {
   public synchronized void stop() {
     if (acceptor != null) {
       try {
-        acceptor.dispose();
+        acceptor.close(true).await();
         log.info("Stopped Gerrit SSHD");
+      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+        log.warn("Exception caught while closing", e);
       } finally {
         acceptor = null;
       }
diff --git a/lib/mina/BUCK b/lib/mina/BUCK
index 9467cc4a9b..a3577c2da0 100644
--- a/lib/mina/BUCK
+++ b/lib/mina/BUCK
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ EXCLUDE = [
   'META-INF/NOTICE',
 ]
 
+maven_jar(
+  name = 'sshd',
+  id = 'org.apache.sshd:sshd-core:0.10.1',
+  sha1 = '0081c09917f35565d762c886758dfbdfa1069679',
+  license = 'Apache2.0',
+  deps = [':core'],
+  exclude = EXCLUDE,
+)
+
 maven_jar(
   name = 'core',
   id = 'org.apache.mina:mina-core:2.0.7',
@@ -13,13 +22,3 @@ maven_jar(
   license = 'Apache2.0',
   exclude = EXCLUDE,
 )
-
-maven_jar(
-  name = 'sshd',
-  id = 'org.apache.sshd:sshd-core:0.9.0.201311081',
-  sha1 = '38f7ac8602e70fa05fdc6147d204198e9cefe5bc',
-  license = 'Apache2.0',
-  deps = [':core'],
-  exclude = EXCLUDE,
-  repository = GERRIT,
-)