diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3006328336e..cee00ee906b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10223. MiniKdc#main() should close the FileReader it creates. 
     (Ted Yu via tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-10236. Fix typo in o.a.h.ipc.Client#checkResponse. (Akira Ajisaka
+    via suresh)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
index 105c31d9890..a7036ecffc0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ void checkResponse(RpcResponseHeaderProto header) throws IOException {
       if (!Arrays.equals(id, RpcConstants.DUMMY_CLIENT_ID)) {
         if (!Arrays.equals(id, clientId)) {
           throw new IOException("Client IDs not matched: local ID="
-              + StringUtils.byteToHexString(clientId) + ", ID in reponse="
+              + StringUtils.byteToHexString(clientId) + ", ID in response="
               + StringUtils.byteToHexString(header.getClientId().toByteArray()));
         }
       }