diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 5961d34911c..a6ef0d57cfd 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -431,6 +431,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8150. Make getFileChecksum fail for blocks under construction
     (J.Andreina via vinayakumarb)
 
+    HDFS-8371. Fix test failure in TestHdfsConfigFields for spanreceiver
+    properties. (Ray Chiang via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestHdfsConfigFields.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestHdfsConfigFields.java
index a1f8a3c9e90..ec0450a8fa4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestHdfsConfigFields.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestHdfsConfigFields.java
@@ -76,5 +76,9 @@ public class TestHdfsConfigFields extends TestConfigurationFieldsBase {
 
     // Some properties have moved to HdfsClientConfigKeys
     xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("dfs.client.short.circuit.replica.stale.threshold.ms");
+
+    // Ignore SpanReceiveHost properties
+    xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("dfs.htrace.spanreceiver.classes");
+    xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("dfs.client.htrace.spanreceiver.classes");
   }
 }