diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 6b0c12f116d..54c9c8799eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+  OPTIMAZATIONS
+
   BUG FIXES
 
 Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
@@ -18,6 +20,8 @@ Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+  OPTIMAZATIONS
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     MAPREDUCE-2374. "Text File Busy" errors launching MR tasks. (Andy Isaacson
@@ -35,6 +39,11 @@ Release 2.1.0-alpha - Unreleased
 
     YARN-29. Add a yarn-client module. (Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli via sseth)
 
+    YARN-10. Fix DistributedShell module to not have a dependency on 
+    hadoop-mapreduce-client-core. (Hitesh Shah via vinodkv)
+
+  OPTIMAZATIONS
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     YARN-12. Fix findbugs warnings in FairScheduler. (Junping Du via acmurthy) 
@@ -53,6 +62,8 @@ Release 0.23.3 - Unreleased
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+  OPTIMAZATIONS
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     YARN-14. Symlinks to peer distributed cache files no longer work 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
index d29edc1be25..c6300504f9f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
@@ -60,11 +60,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-common</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-tests</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
index 68b1d0a1e60..e76e2db9f0f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.JarFinder;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.MiniYARNCluster;