diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index c8e14fdc902..99eea887039 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     MAPREDUCE-4884. Streaming tests fail to start MiniMRCluster due to missing
     queue configuration. (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5012. Typo in javadoc for IdentityMapper class. (Adam Monsen
+    via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/IdentityMapper.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/IdentityMapper.java
index fe395d3ddc3..ff27ed04dae 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/IdentityMapper.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/IdentityMapper.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapReduceBase;
 public class IdentityMapper<K, V>
     extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper<K, V, K, V> {
 
-  /** The identify function.  Input key/value pair is written directly to
+  /** The identity function.  Input key/value pair is written directly to
    * output.*/
   public void map(K key, V val,
                   OutputCollector<K, V> output, Reporter reporter)