diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1412fb83e99..09df2f14ef0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1041,6 +1041,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     each platform, not hardcoded to their Linux values (Martin Walsh via Colin
     P. McCabe)
 
+    HADOOP-12268. AbstractContractAppendTest#testRenameFileBeingAppended
+    misses rename operation. (Zhihai Xu)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/AbstractContractAppendTest.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/AbstractContractAppendTest.java
index 96287057a05..d3e674174d1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/AbstractContractAppendTest.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/AbstractContractAppendTest.java
@@ -24,13 +24,12 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.cleanup;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.createFile;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.dataset;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.touch;
 
 /**
- * Test concat -if supported
+ * Test append -if supported
  */
 public abstract class AbstractContractAppendTest extends AbstractFSContractTestBase {
   private static final Logger LOG =
@@ -112,6 +111,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractContractAppendTest extends AbstractFSContractTestB
     FSDataOutputStream outputStream = getFileSystem().append(target);
     outputStream.write(dataset);
     Path renamed = new Path(testPath, "renamed");
+    rename(target, renamed);
     outputStream.close();
     String listing = ls(testPath);