diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index a7a20988cd1..6b4888f800b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -473,7 +473,6 @@
apache-rat-plugin
- CHANGES.txt
.idea/**
src/main/conf/*
src/main/docs/**
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 629a030f3ce..ea546cabb69 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -369,8 +369,6 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
apache-rat-plugin
- CHANGES.txt
- CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
.gitattributes
.idea/**
src/main/conf/*
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
index 26497ca0722..80bc46e7465 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
@@ -194,7 +194,6 @@
.eclipse.templates/
- CHANGES.txt
lib/jdiff/**
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
index 2cd5ce80674..442075313ea 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -104,15 +104,6 @@
-
- org.apache.rat
- apache-rat-plugin
-
-
- CHANGES.txt
-
-
-