diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1669e3aa497..8a94615808c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -618,6 +618,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10972. Native Libraries Guide contains mis-spelt build line (Peter
     Klavins via aw)
 
+    HADOOP-10873. Fix dead link in Configuration javadoc (Akira AJISAKA 
+    via aw)
+
 Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.java
index cf5ec1a53ee..16c74ce807a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.java
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
  *
  * <p>Unless explicitly turned off, Hadoop by default specifies two 
  * resources, loaded in-order from the classpath: <ol>
- * <li><tt><a href="{@docRoot}/../core-default.html">core-default.xml</a>
- * </tt>: Read-only defaults for hadoop.</li>
+ * <li><tt>
+ * <a href="{@docRoot}/../hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/core-default.xml">
+ * core-default.xml</a></tt>: Read-only defaults for hadoop.</li>
  * <li><tt>core-site.xml</tt>: Site-specific configuration for a given hadoop
  * installation.</li>
  * </ol>