diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 253953a5d2e..c5dff293b7b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -553,6 +553,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7593. Fix AssertionError in TestHttpServer.testMaxThreads().
     (Uma Maheswara Rao G via szetszwo)
 
+    HADOOP-7606. Upgrade Jackson to version 1.7.1 to match the version required
+    by Jersey (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 9e996470806..f012afd7766 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
         <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.9</version>
+        <version>1.7.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>