diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c1f6a7fb6aa..263bdc9d6cc 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -311,9 +311,6 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10406. TestIPC.testIpcWithReaderQueuing may fail. (Xiao Chen via wang)
 
-    HADOOP-9692. Improving log message when SequenceFile reader throws
-    EOFException on zero-length file. Contributed by Zhe Zhang and Chu Tong.
-
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11785. Reduce the number of listStatus operation in distcp