diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 55fa7cb68e5..8a9f083b6c2 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9802. Support Snappy codec on Windows. (cnauroth)
 
+    HADOOP-9879. Move the version info of zookeeper dependencies to
+    hadoop-project/pom (Karthik Kambatla via Sandy Ryza)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index b1058d9ab67..1fd47340cef 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.2</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>jline</groupId>
@@ -245,7 +244,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.2</version>
       <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
index 8273b799094..97ad8e40187 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.2</version>
       <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 1198e69f570..e9310399273 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.2</version>
       <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 07f4a1c4b17..08151d9647c 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -662,6 +662,13 @@
           </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+        <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+        <version>3.4.2</version>
+        <type>test-jar</type>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
         <artifactId>bookkeeper-server</artifactId>