diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9634d0c3a31..b89cf19ebe6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -505,6 +505,9 @@ Release 2.1.0-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5308. Shuffling to memory can get out-of-sync when fetching
     multiple compressed map outputs (Nathan Roberts via jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5315.  DistCp reports success even on failure. (mithun and jlowe
+    via daryn)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HADOOP-8562 SUBTASKS
 
     MAPREDUCE-4739. Some MapReduce tests fail to find winutils.