diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a0a10b819a1..425cab7e71b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10134 [JDK8] Fix Javadoc errors caused by incorrect or illegal tags in doc
     comments. (apurtell via stevel)
 
+    HADOOP-11367. Fix warnings from findbugs 3.0 in hadoop-streaming. (Li Lu via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/streaming/Environment.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/streaming/Environment.java
index bd76c319982..98d8aa03064 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/streaming/Environment.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/streaming/Environment.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.streaming;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.*;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
@@ -62,7 +63,8 @@ public class Environment extends Properties {
     // Read the environment variables
 
     Process pid = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
-    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pid.getInputStream()));
+    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
+        new InputStreamReader(pid.getInputStream(), Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
     try {
       while (true) {
         String line = in.readLine();