diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 628ec2ce644..1f2431076c3 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9435.  Support building the JNI code against the IBM JVM.
     (Tian Hong Wang via Colin Patrick McCabe)
 
+    HADOOP-9833 move slf4j to version 1.7.5 (Kousuke Saruta via stevel)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index ef80c2be876..3ad0b67fe9e 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -547,12 +547,12 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.1</version>
+        <version>1.7.5</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.1</version>
+        <version>1.7.5</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>