diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ed39a66fe4a..7b9332d954f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
     HADOOP-8244. Improve comments on ByteBufferReadable.read. (Henry Robinson
     via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-8368. Use CMake rather than autotools to build native code (ccccabe via tucu)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8372. NetUtils.normalizeHostName() incorrectly handles hostname