diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index b53395b0677..a9e25f17d08 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6375. Listing extended attributes with the search permission.
     (Charles Lamb via wang)
 
+    HDFS-6539. test_native_mini_dfs is skipped in hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+    (decstery via cmccabe)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-2006 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
     HDFS-6299. Protobuf for XAttr and client-side implementation. (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 187da265146..7a0d90ca340 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
                     </exec>
                     <exec executable="sh" failonerror="true" dir="${project.build.directory}/native/">
                         <arg value="-c"/>
-                        <arg value="[ x$SKIPTESTS = xtrue ] || ${project.build.directory}/native/test_libhdfs_threaded"/>
+                        <arg value="[ x$SKIPTESTS = xtrue ] || ${project.build.directory}/native/test_native_mini_dfs"/>
                       <env key="CLASSPATH" value="${test_classpath}:${compile_classpath}"/>
                       <env key="SKIPTESTS" value="${skipTests}"/>
                     </exec>