diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 927e424572b..c4096b31baf 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-8147. test-patch should run tests with -fn to avoid masking test
     failures (Robert Evans via tgraves)
 
+    HADOOP-8117. Upgrade test build to Surefire 2.12 (todd)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8177. MBeans shouldn't try to register when it fails to create MBeanName.
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 3e1ac2a98e9..1281908e752 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>2.10</version>
+          <version>2.12</version>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>