diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 06c755488f3..282bb292341 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     MAPREDUCE-4994. Addendum fixing testcases failures. (sandyr via tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4846. Some JobQueueInfo methods are public in MR1 but protected
+    in MR2. (Sandy Ryza via tomwhite)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueInfo.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueInfo.java
index 3bfc7722deb..67b73cea71b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueInfo.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueInfo.java
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ public class JobQueueInfo extends QueueInfo {
    * 
    * @param queueName Name of the job queue.
    */
-  protected void setQueueName(String queueName) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setQueueName(String queueName) {
     super.setQueueName(queueName);
   }
 
@@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ public class JobQueueInfo extends QueueInfo {
    * 
    * @param schedulingInfo
    */
-  protected void setSchedulingInfo(String schedulingInfo) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setSchedulingInfo(String schedulingInfo) {
     super.setSchedulingInfo(schedulingInfo);
   }
 
@@ -84,15 +86,21 @@ public class JobQueueInfo extends QueueInfo {
    * Set the state of the queue
    * @param state state of the queue.
    */
-  protected void setQueueState(String state) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setQueueState(String state) {
     super.setState(QueueState.getState(state));
   }
   
-  String getQueueState() {
+  /**
+   * Use getState() instead
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  public String getQueueState() {
     return super.getState().toString();
   }
   
-  protected void setChildren(List<JobQueueInfo> children) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setChildren(List<JobQueueInfo> children) {
     List<QueueInfo> list = new ArrayList<QueueInfo>();
     for (JobQueueInfo q : children) {
       list.add(q);
@@ -108,7 +116,8 @@ public class JobQueueInfo extends QueueInfo {
     return list;
   }
 
-  protected void setProperties(Properties props) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setProperties(Properties props) {
     super.setProperties(props);
   }
 
@@ -141,7 +150,8 @@ public class JobQueueInfo extends QueueInfo {
     setChildren(children);
   }
 
-  protected void setJobStatuses(org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobStatus[] stats) {
+  @InterfaceAudience.Private
+  public void setJobStatuses(org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobStatus[] stats) {
     super.setJobStatuses(stats);
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/QueueConfigurationParser.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/QueueConfigurationParser.java
index e0738d4c88d..3e608e00738 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/QueueConfigurationParser.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/QueueConfigurationParser.java
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ class QueueConfigurationParser {
     q.appendChild(propsElement);
 
     // Queue-state
-    String queueState = jqi.getQueueState();
+    String queueState = jqi.getState().getStateName();
     if (queueState != null
         && !queueState.equals(QueueState.UNDEFINED.getStateName())) {
       Element qStateElement = document.createElement(STATE_TAG);