diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
index 3f23987ef1f..1d8ce4dd255 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ HAServiceProtocol (eli via todd)
 HADOOP-7932. Make client connection retries on socket time outs configurable.
 (Uma Maheswara Rao G via todd)
 
-HADOOP-7924. 
FailoverController for client-based configuration (eli)
+HADOOP-7924. FailoverController for client-based configuration (eli)
 
 HADOOP-7961. Move HA fencing to common. (eli)