diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index cb0a37ed5a1..24a75059939 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8123. Use java.home rather than env.JAVA_HOME for java in the
     project. (Jonathan Eagles via acmurthy) 
 
+    HADOOP-8064. Remove unnecessary dependency on w3c.org in document processing
+    (Khiwal Lee via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - 2012-02-17 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
index e796f53f3b8..125a118edb4 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,9 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
+      <!-- Disable generation of pdf using maven-pdf-plugin until v.1.2 is released.
+           See Hadoop 8064 for details. -->
+      <!--plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-pdf-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
@@ -192,7 +194,7 @@
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
-      </plugin>
+      </plugin-->
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>