diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 171284ef0f9..bd4289158a7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -605,6 +605,9 @@ Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7172. SecureIO should not check owner on non-secure
     clusters that have no native support. (todd via eli)
 
+    HADOOP-7184. Remove deprecated config local.cache.size from
+    core-default.xml (todd)
+
 Release 0.21.1 - Unreleased
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/src/java/core-default.xml b/src/java/core-default.xml
index 57b878365c5..afff682cd8a 100644
--- a/src/java/core-default.xml
+++ b/src/java/core-default.xml
@@ -388,14 +388,6 @@
   filesystem (s3n: URIs).</description>
 </property>
 
-<property>
-  <name>local.cache.size</name>
-  <value>10737418240</value>
-  <description>The limit on the size of cache you want to keep, set by default
-  to 10GB. This will act as a soft limit on the cache directory for out of band data.
-  </description>
-</property>
-            
 <property>
   <name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name>
   <value>1000000</value>