diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index ae9cc861762..3605d5cf3fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4073. CS assigns multiple off-switch containers when using
     multi-level-queues (Siddharth Seth via bobby)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4051. Remove the empty hadoop-mapreduce-project/assembly/all.xml
+    file (Ravi Prakash via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/assembly/all.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/assembly/all.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d..00000000000