diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 06868090d8a..6e80de9ef5a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     MAPREDUCE-5898. distcp to support preserving HDFS extended attributes(XAttrs)
     (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5920. Add Xattr option in DistCp docs. (Yi Liu via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/site/markdown/DistCp.md.vm b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/site/markdown/DistCp.md.vm
index 669e6cd2e29..6271a927a47 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/site/markdown/DistCp.md.vm
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/site/markdown/DistCp.md.vm
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Command Line Options
 
 Flag              | Description                          | Notes
 ----------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------
-`-p[rbugpca]` | Preserve r: replication number b: block size u: user g: group p: permission c: checksum-type a: ACL | Modification times are not preserved. Also, when `-update` is specified, status updates will **not** be synchronized unless the file sizes also differ (i.e. unless the file is re-created). If -pa is specified, DistCp preserves the permissions also because ACLs are a super-set of permissions.
+`-p[rbugpcax]` | Preserve r: replication number b: block size u: user g: group p: permission c: checksum-type a: ACL x: XAttr | Modification times are not preserved. Also, when `-update` is specified, status updates will **not** be synchronized unless the file sizes also differ (i.e. unless the file is re-created). If -pa is specified, DistCp preserves the permissions also because ACLs are a super-set of permissions.
 `-i` | Ignore failures | As explained in the Appendix, this option will keep more accurate statistics about the copy than the default case. It also preserves logs from failed copies, which can be valuable for debugging. Finally, a failing map will not cause the job to fail before all splits are attempted.
 `-log <logdir>` | Write logs to \<logdir\> | DistCp keeps logs of each file it attempts to copy as map output. If a map fails, the log output will not be retained if it is re-executed.
 `-m <num_maps>` | Maximum number of simultaneous copies | Specify the number of maps to copy data. Note that more maps may not necessarily improve throughput.