diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9f881e9f698..6604f474864 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     (Devaraj K via acmurthy) 
 
     MAPREDUCE-2879. Fix version for MR-279 to 0.23.0. (acmurthy) 
+   
+    MAPREDUCE-2881. Fix to include log4j 1.2.16 depenency (gkesavan)
 
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
index cacb6df8a90..02152e25c52 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@
                rev="${hadoop-hdfs.version}" conf="system->default"/>
    <dependency org="commons-logging" name="commons-logging" 
                rev="${commons-logging.version}" conf="compile->master"/>
-  <!-- <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="${log4j.version}" 
-               conf="compile->master"/>-->
-
    <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev="${slf4j-api.version}" 
                conf="compile->master"/>
    <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-log4j12" 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy/libraries.properties b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy/libraries.properties
index 19d85b3f568..360c5a9967b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy/libraries.properties
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy/libraries.properties
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ hadoop-hdfs.version=0.24.0-SNAPSHOT
 
 hsqldb.version=1.8.0.10
 
-ivy.version=2.1.0
+ivy.version=2.2.0
 
 jasper.version=5.5.12
 jdeb.version=0.8
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jdiff.version=1.0.9
 
 kfs.version=0.3
 
-log4j.version=1.2.15
+log4j.version=1.2.16
 lucene-core.version=2.3.1
 
 mina-core.version=2.0.0-M5
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/block_forensics/ivy.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/block_forensics/ivy.xml
index bb9f5719cce..fa241c7495c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/block_forensics/ivy.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/block_forensics/ivy.xml
@@ -46,5 +46,7 @@
                 rev="${hadoop-common.version}" conf="common->default"/>  
    <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="hadoop-mapreduce-client-core" 
                rev="${yarn.version}" conf="common->default"/>
+   <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="${log4j.version}"
+               conf="common->master"/> 
   </dependencies>
 </ivy-module>