diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth-examples/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth-examples/pom.xml
index 67f113ba2c4..066400a9e61 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth-examples/pom.xml
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
     <artifactId>hadoop-project</artifactId>
-    <version>0.24.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.23.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../hadoop-project</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
   <artifactId>hadoop-auth-examples</artifactId>
-  <version>0.24.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.23.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>war</packaging>
 
   <name>Apache Hadoop Auth Examples</name>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 32f18113d23..3c42f55e3c9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
 
     HADOOP-7595. Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3. (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-7604. Hadoop Auth examples pom in 0.23 point to 0.24 versions.
+    (mahadev)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
   
     HADOOP-7333. Performance improvement in PureJavaCrc32. (Eric Caspole