diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index a13fa6323db..adf4d391d2e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1647,6 +1647,9 @@ Release 0.23.10 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5640. Rename TestLineRecordReader in jobclient module (Jason Lowe
     via jeagles)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3191. docs for map output compression incorrectly reference
+    SequenceFile (Chen He via jeagles)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     MAPREDUCE-1981. Improve getSplits performance by using listLocatedStatus
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
index 96bca89ed5f..17ae55e373e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
@@ -747,7 +747,6 @@ public class JobConf extends Configuration {
 
   /**
    * Should the map outputs be compressed before transfer?
-   * Uses the SequenceFile compression.
    * 
    * @param compress should the map outputs be compressed?
    */