diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 63226e72518..367fd62bb38 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8917. add LOCALE.US to toLowerCase in SecurityUtil.replacePattern.
     (Arpit Gupta via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-9342. Remove jline from distribution. (thw via tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 5992992cddd..7762b17a099 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -224,6 +224,10 @@
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
       <version>3.4.2</version>
       <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>jline</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <!-- otherwise seems to drag in junit 3.8.1 via jline -->
           <groupId>junit</groupId>