diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f600639ea8a..3d2070b189a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
    MAPREDUCE-3465. Fixed project pom to create test dirs (and fix failing tests).
    (Hitesh Shah via sseth)
 
+   HADOOP-7864. Building mvn site with Maven < 3.0.2 causes OOM errors.
+   (Andrew Bayer via eli)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bf5f6991ebc..8090e57163c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
         <configuration>
           <rules>
             <requireMavenVersion>
-              <version>[3.0.0,)</version>
+              <version>[3.0.2,)</version>
             </requireMavenVersion>
             <requireJavaVersion>
               <version>1.6</version>