diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/HDFS-1312_CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/HDFS-1312_CHANGES.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 919d73e6b72..00000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/HDFS-1312_CHANGES.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-HDFS-1312 Change Log
-
-  NEW FEATURES
-
-    HDFS-9420. Add DataModels for DiskBalancer. (Anu Engineer via szetszwo)
-
-    HDFS-9449. DiskBalancer: Add connectors. (Anu Engineer via szetszwo)
-
-    HDFS-9526. Fix jackson annotation imports. (Xiaobing Zhou via szetszwo)
-
-    HDFS-9611. DiskBalancer: Replace htrace json imports with jackson.
-    (Anu Engineer via Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9469. DiskBalancer: Add Planner. (Anu Engineer via Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9588. DiskBalancer: Add submitDiskbalancer RPC. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9595. DiskBalancer: Add cancelPlan RPC. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9645. DiskBalancer: Add Query RPC. (Anu Engineer via Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9647. DiskBalancer: Add getRuntimeSettings. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9671. DiskBalancer: SubmitPlan implementation. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9681. DiskBalancer: Add QueryPlan implementation. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
-    HDFS-9683. DiskBalancer: Add cancelPlan implementation. (Anu Engineer via
-    Arpit Agarwal)
-
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 93e739265c7..e8397e1387e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
             <exclude>src/main/webapps/static/dataTables.bootstrap.css</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/webapps/static/dataTables.bootstrap.js</exclude>
             <exclude>src/test/resources/diskBalancer/data-cluster-3node-3disk.json</exclude>
-            <exclude>HDFS-1312_CHANGES.txt</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>