diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 468f6e473ea..51db2e5c329 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-8117. Upgrade test build to Surefire 2.12 (todd)
 
-    HADOOP-8290. Remove remaining references to hadoop.native.lib (harsh)
-
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8177. MBeans shouldn't try to register when it fails to create MBeanName.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
index 67254fe7582..119fb3c14e4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
@@ -756,8 +756,7 @@ public void testCodecPoolAndGzipDecompressor() {
 
     // Don't use native libs for this test.
     Configuration conf = new Configuration();
-    conf.setBoolean(CommonConfigurationKeys.IO_NATIVE_LIB_AVAILABLE_KEY,
-                    false);
+    conf.setBoolean("hadoop.native.lib", false);
     assertFalse("ZlibFactory is using native libs against request",
                 ZlibFactory.isNativeZlibLoaded(conf));
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
index 6aa685da5fb..a9df13752d1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
@@ -238,8 +237,7 @@ static class SeqFileAppendable implements KVAppendable {
     public SeqFileAppendable(FileSystem fs, Path path, int osBufferSize,
         String compress, int minBlkSize) throws IOException {
       Configuration conf = new Configuration();
-      conf.setBoolean(CommonConfigurationKeys.IO_NATIVE_LIB_AVAILABLE_KEY,
-                      true);
+      conf.setBoolean("hadoop.native.lib", true);
 
       CompressionCodec codec = null;
       if ("lzo".equals(compress)) {