diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0421e418d86..94bdf7bb1bc 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2902. Killing a container that is localizing can orphan resources in
     the DOWNLOADING state (Varun Saxena via jlowe)
 
+    YARN-4183. Enabling generic application history forces every job to get a
+    timeline service delegation token (Mit Desai via jeagles)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - 2015-07-06
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/SystemMetricsPublisher.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/SystemMetricsPublisher.java
index b849b0035db..273c1d97c0d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/SystemMetricsPublisher.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/SystemMetricsPublisher.java
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ public class SystemMetricsPublisher extends CompositeService {
   @Override
   protected void serviceInit(Configuration conf) throws Exception {
     publishSystemMetrics =
-        conf.getBoolean(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_ENABLED,
-            YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_TIMELINE_SERVICE_ENABLED) &&
+        conf.getBoolean(YarnConfiguration.APPLICATION_HISTORY_ENABLED,
+            YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_APPLICATION_HISTORY_ENABLED) &&
         conf.getBoolean(YarnConfiguration.RM_SYSTEM_METRICS_PUBLISHER_ENABLED,
             YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SYSTEM_METRICS_PUBLISHER_ENABLED);
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/TestSystemMetricsPublisher.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/TestSystemMetricsPublisher.java
index 7ed3835bdb7..40a4b9a8263 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/TestSystemMetricsPublisher.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/metrics/TestSystemMetricsPublisher.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class TestSystemMetricsPublisher {
   @BeforeClass
   public static void setup() throws Exception {
     YarnConfiguration conf = new YarnConfiguration();
-    conf.setBoolean(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_ENABLED, true);
+    conf.setBoolean(YarnConfiguration.APPLICATION_HISTORY_ENABLED, true);
     conf.setBoolean(YarnConfiguration.RM_SYSTEM_METRICS_PUBLISHER_ENABLED, true);
     conf.setClass(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_STORE,
         MemoryTimelineStore.class, TimelineStore.class);