diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9b52445c5fd..a5b6b0cdc0a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1443,6 +1443,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12181. Fix intermittent test failure of TestZKSignerSecretProvider.
     (Masatake Iwasaki via wheat9)
 
+    HADOOP-12098. Remove redundant test dependencies in Hadoop Archives.
+    (Varun Saxena via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/pom.xml
index 30baa1c663c..f04d7fc252c 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/pom.xml
@@ -50,11 +50,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
@@ -65,12 +60,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <type>test-jar</type>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>