cannot modify mapreduce.job.tags

I just upgraded from 1.2.3 to 1.3.1 and found none of queries is working. The simplest queue gives an error as below:

Error while processing statement: Cannot modify mapreduce.job.tags at runtime. It is not in list of params that are allowed to be modified at runtime

In Editor Session, sure enough mapreduce.job.tags is set to something like "dtfah_qxyx39xxz513". 

I am using hdp2.2 and had the client driver version as "CDH5 5.5". (I cannot use HDP 2.3 or auth over kerberose won't work)