diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0dbd759f8d0..7ce47e5d3d2 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2036. Document yarn.resourcemanager.hostname in ClusterSetup (Ray
     Chiang via Sandy Ryza)
 
+    YARN-766. TestNodeManagerShutdown in branch-2 should use Shell to form the output path and a format 
+    issue in trunk. (Contributed by Siddharth Seth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerShutdown.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerShutdown.java
index 2cc54dc2ae0..2313baef76d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerShutdown.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestNodeManagerShutdown.java
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ public class TestNodeManagerShutdown {
 
   public static void startContainer(NodeManager nm, ContainerId cId,
       FileContext localFS, File scriptFileDir, File processStartFile)
-      throws IOException, YarnException {
+          throws IOException, YarnException {
     File scriptFile =
         createUnhaltingScriptFile(cId, scriptFileDir, processStartFile);