diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a7dd347326b..a6a917cc700 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-6161. Add get/setEnum methods to Configuration. (cdouglas)
 
+    HADOOP-6160. Fix releaseaudit target to run on specific directories.
+    (gkesavan)
+     
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-5595. NameNode does not need to run a replicator to choose a
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2029c84be71..89920a33dfd 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1013,12 +1013,19 @@
   <!-- ================================================================== -->
   <!-- Perform audit activities for the release                           -->
   <!-- ================================================================== -->
-  <target name="releaseaudit" depends="package,ivy-retrieve-releaseaudit" description="Release Audit activities">
-    <fail unless="rat.present" message="Failed to load class [${rat.reporting.classname}]."/>
-    <java classname="${rat.reporting.classname}" fork="true">
-      <classpath refid="releaseaudit-classpath"/>
-      <arg value="${build.dir}/${final.name}"/>
-    </java>
+  <target name="rats-taskdef" depends="ivy-retrieve-releaseaudit">
+     <typedef format="xml" resource="org/apache/rat/anttasks/antlib.xml" uri="antlib:org.apache.rat.anttasks"
+      classpathref="releaseaudit-classpath"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="releaseaudit" depends="package, rats-taskdef" description="Release Audit activities">
+   <rat:report xmlns:rat="antlib:org.apache.rat.anttasks">
+      <fileset dir="${dist.dir}">
+        <exclude name="CHANGES.txt"/>
+        <exclude name="docs/"/>
+        <exclude name="lib/jdiff/"/>
+      </fileset>
+    </rat:report>
   </target>
 
   <!-- ================================================================== -->
@@ -1278,8 +1285,6 @@
     <ivy:retrieve settingsRef="${ant.project.name}.ivy.settings"
       pattern="${build.ivy.lib.dir}/${ivy.artifact.retrieve.pattern}" />
     <ivy:cachepath pathid="releaseaudit-classpath" conf="releaseaudit"/>
-    <available classname="${rat.reporting.classname}" 
-      classpathref="releaseaudit-classpath" property="rat.present" value="true"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="ivy-report" depends="ivy-resolve-releaseaudit"
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index d3ff4909cf8..5647e235974 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@
       name="junit"
       rev="${junit.version}"
       conf="common->default"/>
-    <dependency org="com.google.code.p.arat"
-      name="rat-lib"
+    <dependency org="org.apache.rat"
+      name="apache-rat-tasks"
       rev="${rats-lib.version}"
       conf="releaseaudit->default"/>
     <dependency org="commons-lang"
diff --git a/ivy/libraries.properties b/ivy/libraries.properties
index 61647a7e39d..2d108bf761d 100644
--- a/ivy/libraries.properties
+++ b/ivy/libraries.properties
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ mina-core.version=2.0.0-M5
 
 oro.version=2.0.8
 
-rats-lib.version=0.5.1
+rats-lib.version=0.6
 
 servlet.version=4.0.6
 servlet-api-2.5.version=6.1.14