diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9eed40da500..d30119c6b09 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -536,6 +536,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
 
     HADOOP-9413. Add common utils for File#setReadable/Writable/Executable &
     File#canRead/Write/Execute that work cross-platform. (Ivan Mitic via suresh)
+
+    HADOOP-9532. HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS is appended twice by Windows cmd scripts.
+    (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
     
 Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.cmd b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.cmd
index 6e34fe91984..08c85d80d4b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.cmd
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.cmd
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ if exist %HADOOP_HOME%\contrib\capacity-scheduler (
 @rem set HADOOP_NAMENODE_INIT_HEAPSIZE=""
 
 @rem Extra Java runtime options.  Empty by default.
-@rem set HADOOP_OPTS=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true %HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS%
+@rem set HADOOP_OPTS=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
 
 @rem Command specific options appended to HADOOP_OPTS when specified
 if not defined HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER (