diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index d855fc3cd0d..2e9ba58536f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-8066 The full docs build intermittently fails (abayer via tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-8083 javadoc generation for some modules is not done under target/ (tucu)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - 2012-02-08 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index bdb023c88ee..00d3f6cc6bc 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -932,6 +932,9 @@
                 <goals>
                   <goal>jar</goal>
                 </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <destDir>${project.build.directory}</destDir>
+                </configuration>
               </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>