diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 91781f90579..99076ec7f41 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3064. TestRMRestart/TestContainerResourceUsage/TestNodeManagerResync 
     failure with allocation timeout. (Jian He via junping_du)
 
+    YARN-2815. Excluded transitive dependency of JLine in hadoop-yarn-server-common.
+    (Ferdinand Xu via zjshen)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
index 35eacc53731..1a4dab8c2bf 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>jline</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.fusesource.leveldbjni</groupId>