diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0d3b33086cd..3628d5de3af 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2158. Improved assertion messages of TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.
     (Varun Vasudev via zjshen)
 
+    YARN-2269. Remove external links from YARN UI. (Craig Welch via xgong)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - 2014-06-23 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/view/FooterBlock.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/view/FooterBlock.java
index eedf64b2769..ba85ac69d3f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/view/FooterBlock.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/view/FooterBlock.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ public class FooterBlock extends HtmlBlock {
 
   @Override protected void render(Block html) {
     html.
-      div("#footer.ui-widget").
-        a("http://hadoop.apache.org/", "About Apache Hadoop")._();
+      div("#footer.ui-widget")._();
   }
 }