diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 9cd5b0591c1..d635400fb5c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -582,6 +582,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7517. Remove redundant non-null checks in FSNamesystem#
     getBlockLocations. (wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-7514. TestTextCommand fails on Windows. (Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.6.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/TestHdfsTextCommand.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/TestHdfsTextCommand.java
index f589d7e27a4..76c32bfbaa9 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/TestHdfsTextCommand.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/TestHdfsTextCommand.java
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
  * by the Text command.
  */
 public class TestHdfsTextCommand {
-  private static final String TEST_ROOT_DIR =
-    System.getProperty("test.build.data", "build/test/data/") + "/testText";
+  private static final String TEST_ROOT_DIR = "/test/data/testText";
   private static final Path AVRO_FILENAME = new Path(TEST_ROOT_DIR, "weather.avro");
   private static MiniDFSCluster cluster;
   private static FileSystem fs;