diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 6819e2dfc3f..593ed5a9981 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -911,6 +911,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8703. distcpV2: turn CRC checking off for 0 byte size (Dave
     Thompson via bobby)
 
+    HADOOP-8390. TestFileSystemCanonicalization fails with JDK7  (Trevor
+    Robinson via tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileSystemCanonicalization.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileSystemCanonicalization.java
index 8075cd57095..ac9c05e89c8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileSystemCanonicalization.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileSystemCanonicalization.java
@@ -18,18 +18,20 @@
 
 package org.apache.hadoop.fs;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.NetUtilsTestResolver;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progressable;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-public class TestFileSystemCanonicalization extends TestCase {
+public class TestFileSystemCanonicalization {
   static String[] authorities = {
     "myfs://host",
     "myfs://host.a",
@@ -41,8 +43,8 @@ public class TestFileSystemCanonicalization extends TestCase {
   };
 
 
-  @Test
-  public void testSetupResolver() throws Exception {
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void initialize() throws Exception {
     NetUtilsTestResolver.install();
   }