diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 97178e424b8..1892b195311 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -739,6 +739,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3697. Support binary compatibility for Counters after
     MAPREDUCE-901. (mahadev via acmurthy) 
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3817. Fixed bin/mapred to allow running of distcp and archive
+    jobs. (Arpit Gupta via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
index 5ade3dabf43..898e053afdf 100755
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ function print_usage(){
   echo "                       mapreduce subcommands"
   echo "  groups               get the groups which users belong to"
   echo "  historyserver        run job history servers as a standalone daemon"
+  echo "  distcp <srcurl> <desturl> copy file or directories recursively"
+  echo "  archive -archiveName NAME -p <parent path> <src>* <dest> create a hadoop archive"
   echo ""
   echo "Most commands print help when invoked w/o parameters."
 }
@@ -76,6 +78,14 @@ elif [ "$COMMAND" = "mradmin" ] \
   echo "You may find similar functionality with the \"yarn\" shell command."
   print_usage
   exit
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "distcp" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${TOOL_PATH}
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "archive" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.tools.HadoopArchives
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${TOOL_PATH}
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
 else
   echo $COMMAND - invalid command
   print_usage