diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c69ec9d3eea..d0d7ab1b021 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7621. alfredo config should be in a file not readable by users
                  (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
 
-    HADOOP-7542. Change Configuration XML format to 1.1 to support for serializing additional characters (Christopher Egner via harsh)
-
 Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
@@ -37,6 +35,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
    HADOOP-6432. Add Statistics support in FileContext. (jitendra)
 
    HADOOP-7136. Remove failmon contrib component. (nigel)
+   
+   HADOOP-7542. Change Configuration XML format to 1.1 to support for serializing additional
+   characters. This requires XML1.1 support in the XML parser (Christopher Egner via harsh)
 
   NEW FEATURES