diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1729064a55a..9f1ab9973ae 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11868. Invalid user logins trigger large backtraces in server log
     (Chang Li via jlowe)
 
+    HADOOP-11872. "hadoop dfs" command prints message about using "yarn jar" on
+    Windows(branch-2 only) (Varun Vasudev via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop.cmd b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop.cmd
index d53ba575db0..ccf2fff322e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop.cmd
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop.cmd
@@ -246,8 +246,6 @@ call :updatepath %HADOOP_BIN_PATH%
   goto :MakeCmdArgsLoop 
   :EndLoop 
   set hadoop-command-arguments=%_arguments%
-  @echo                        note: please use "yarn jar" to launch
-  @echo                              YARN applications, not this command.
   goto :eof
 
 :print_usage
@@ -256,6 +254,8 @@ call :updatepath %HADOOP_BIN_PATH%
   @echo   fs                   run a generic filesystem user client
   @echo   version              print the version
   @echo   jar ^<jar^>            run a jar file
+  @echo                        note: please use "yarn jar" to launch
+  @echo                              YARN applications, not this command.
   @echo   checknative [-a^|-h]  check native hadoop and compression libraries availability
   @echo   distcp ^<srcurl^> ^<desturl^> copy file or directories recursively
   @echo   archive -archiveName NAME -p ^<parent path^> ^<src^>* ^<dest^> create a hadoop archive