diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 97b44bf5dd5..2cf5a93ea4f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2671. Fixed ApplicationSubmissionContext to still set resource for
     backward compatibility. (Wangda Tan via zjshen)
 
+    YARN-2667. Fix the release audit warning caused by hadoop-yarn-registry
+    (Yi Liu via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
index ed80c42788f..04569dbf52c 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <excludes>
+            <exclude>src/main/resources/.keep</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>