diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f8dc7c70bc8..2f500727dee 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -925,9 +925,6 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12603. TestSymlinkLocalFSFileContext#testSetTimesSymlinkToDir
     occasionally fail. (Wei-Chiu Chuang via cnauroth)
 
-    HADOOP-12700. Remove unused import in TestCompressorDecompressor.java.
-    (John Zhuge via aajisaka)
-
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
index 990b60274e8..a8ac993c47b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.compress;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 import java.util.Random;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressDecompressTester.CompressionTestStrategy;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.lz4.Lz4Compressor;