diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index a891422012d..10fc14e1731 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-1580. Add interface for generic Write Ahead Logging mechanisms.
     (Ivan Kelly via jitendra)
 
+    HDFS-3060. Bump TestDistributedUpgrade#testDistributedUpgrade timeout (eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
     HDFS-2477. Optimize computing the diff between a block report and the
                namenode state. (Tomasz Nykiel via hairong)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/TestDistributedUpgrade.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/TestDistributedUpgrade.java
index 2bfcbdefd5e..25dce520a68 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/TestDistributedUpgrade.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/TestDistributedUpgrade.java
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ public class TestDistributedUpgrade {
  
   /**
    */
-  @Test(timeout=120000)
+  @Test(timeout=300000) // 5 min timeout
   public void testDistributedUpgrade() throws Exception {
     int numDirs = 1;
     TestDFSUpgradeFromImage testImg = new TestDFSUpgradeFromImage();