diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index cfd9459bcd9..9d3179b31eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2816. NM fail to start with NPE during container recovery (Zhihai Xu
     via jlowe)
 
+    YARN-2432. RMStateStore should process the pending events before close.
+    (Varun Saxena via jianhe)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/RMStateStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/RMStateStore.java
index beac4032e2f..8948b54ed62 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/RMStateStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/recovery/RMStateStore.java
@@ -492,8 +492,8 @@ protected void serviceStart() throws Exception {
 
   @Override
   protected void serviceStop() throws Exception {
-    closeInternal();
     dispatcher.stop();
+    closeInternal();
   }
 
   /**