diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ddc2c46495f..5e704f153f4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7912. test-patch should run eclipse:eclipse to verify that it does
     not break again. (Robert Joseph Evans via tomwhite)
 
+    HADOOP-7890. Redirect hadoop script's deprecation message to stderr.
+    (Koji Knoguchi via mahadev)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
index 9e92b5c2cea..4ca78972aa3 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ COMMAND=$1
 case $COMMAND in
   #hdfs commands
   namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer)
-    echo "DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute hdfs command is deprecated."
-    echo "Instead use the hdfs command for it."
-    echo ""
+    echo "DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute hdfs command is deprecated." 1>&2
+    echo "Instead use the hdfs command for it." 1>&2
+    echo "" 1>&2
     #try to locate hdfs and if present, delegate to it.  
     if [ -f "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/hdfs ]; then
       exec "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/hdfs $*