diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 5256a650f16..8043d59f34a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8224. Don't hardcode hdfs.audit.logger in the scripts.
     (Tomohiko Kinebuchi via eli)
 
+    HADOOP-8113. Correction to BUILDING.txt: HDFS needs ProtocolBuffer, too
+    (not just MapReduce). Contributed by Eugene Koontz.
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES