diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 646b6b25c55..270dd247e6a 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
     data structures thread safe to avoid RM crashing with
     ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. (Zhijie Shen via vinodkv)
 
+    YARN-1025. ResourceManager and NodeManager do not load native libraries on
+    Windows. (cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.1.0-beta - 2013-08-22
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn.cmd b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn.cmd
index 031cce7bd6b..955df46245b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn.cmd
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn.cmd
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ if "%1" == "--config" (
 
   call :%yarn-command% %yarn-command-arguments%
 
+  if defined JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH (
+    set YARN_OPTS=%YARN_OPTS% -Djava.library.path=%JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH%
+  )
+
   set java_arguments=%JAVA_HEAP_MAX% %YARN_OPTS% -classpath %CLASSPATH% %CLASS% %yarn-command-arguments%
   call %JAVA% %java_arguments%