diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c064bb6a9ac..3865d28abf8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10125. no need to process RPC request if the client connection
     has been dropped (Ming Ma via brandonli)
 
+    HADOOP-10235. Hadoop tarball has 2 versions of stax-api JARs. (tucu)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 6fb667edcdf..22cd5fe5d2b 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
         <version>${jersey.version}</version>
         <exclusions>
           <exclusion>
-            <groupId>javax.xml.stream</groupId>
+            <groupId>stax</groupId>
             <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
@@ -764,6 +764,12 @@
         <groupId>org.codehaus.jettison</groupId>
         <artifactId>jettison</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>stax</groupId>
+            <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>