diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ccd20ab704f..7a915eb8ca4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9291. enhance unit-test coverage of package o.a.h.metrics2 (Ivan A.
     Veselovsky via jeagles)
 
+    HADOOP-10064. Upgrade to maven antrun plugin version 1.7 (Arpit Agarwal via
+    jeagles)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9748. Reduce blocking on UGI.ensureInitialized (daryn)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 826d1d910b0..93b582d82d1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>1.6</version>
+          <version>1.7</version>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>