diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index fd40ad29f9e..2ffa541701d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6382. Don't escape HTML links in Diagnostics in JHS job overview.
     (Siqi Li via gera)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6377. JHS sorting on state column not working in webUi.
+    (zhihai xu via devaraj)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/HsView.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/HsView.java
index 59b7aa6b479..229bbb0bc8a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/HsView.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/HsView.java
@@ -87,10 +87,11 @@ public class HsView extends TwoColumnLayout {
         append(", bProcessing: true").
 
         // Sort by id upon page load
-        append(", aaSorting: [[2, 'desc']]").
+        append(", aaSorting: [[3, 'desc']]").
         append(", aoColumnDefs:[").
         // Maps Total, Maps Completed, Reduces Total and Reduces Completed
-        append("{'sType':'numeric', 'bSearchable': false, 'aTargets': [ 7, 8, 9, 10 ] }").
+        append("{'sType':'numeric', 'bSearchable': false" +
+            ", 'aTargets': [ 8, 9, 10, 11 ] }").
         append("]}").
         toString();
   }