diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7d983da8dc3..d9561cdf23e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-7595. Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3. (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
 
-    HADOOP-7717. Move handling of concurrent client fail-overs to
-    RetryInvocationHandler (atm)
-
     HADOOP-7664. Remove warmings when overriding final parameter configuration
     if the override value is same as the final parameter value.
     (Ravi Prakash via suresh)
@@ -37,9 +34,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7729. Send back valid HTTP response if user hits IPC port with
     HTTP GET. (todd)
 
-    HADOOP-7728. Enable task memory management to be configurable in hadoop
-    config setup script. (ramya)
-
     HADOOP-7792. Add verifyToken method to AbstractDelegationTokenSecretManager.
     (jitendra)
 
@@ -57,17 +51,12 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7988. Upper case in hostname part of the principals doesn't work with
     kerberos. (jitendra)
 
-    HADOOP-8108. Move method getHostPortString() from NameNode to NetUtils.
-    (Brandon Li via jitendra)
-
     HADOOP-8078. Add capability to turn on security in unit tests. (Jaimin Jetly
     via jitendra)
 
     HADOOP-7994. Remove getProtocolVersion and getProtocolSignature from the 
     client side translator and server side implementation. (jitendra)
 
-    HADOOP-7557 Make IPC header be extensible (sanjay radia)
-
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8018.  Hudson auto test for HDFS has started throwing javadoc
@@ -110,9 +99,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7770. ViewFS getFileChecksum throws FileNotFoundException for files in 
     /tmp and /user. (Ravi Prakash via jitendra)
 
-    HADOOP-7888. TestFailoverProxy fails intermittently on trunk. (Jason Lowe
-    via atm)
-
     HADOOP-8141. Add method to SecurityUtil to init krb5 cipher suites.
     (todd)
 
@@ -234,6 +220,20 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8125. make hadoop-client set of curated jars available in a
     distribution tarball (rvs via tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-7717. Move handling of concurrent client fail-overs to
+    RetryInvocationHandler (atm)
+
+    HADOOP-7728. Enable task memory management to be configurable in hadoop
+    config setup script. (ramya)
+
+    HADOOP-7358. Improve log levels when exceptions caught in RPC handler
+    (Todd Lipcon via shv)
+
+    HADOOP-8108. Move method getHostPortString() from NameNode to NetUtils.
+    (Brandon Li via jitendra)
+
+    HADOOP-7557 Make IPC header be extensible (sanjay radia)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8119. Fix javac warnings in TestAuthenticationFilter in hadoop-auth.
     (szetszwo)
 
+    HADOOP-7888. TestFailoverProxy fails intermittently on trunk. (Jason Lowe
+    via atm)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
@@ -1532,9 +1535,6 @@ Release 0.22.0 - 2011-11-29
 
     HADOOP-7786. Remove HDFS-specific config keys defined in FsConfig. (eli)
 
-    HADOOP-7358. Improve log levels when exceptions caught in RPC handler
-    (Todd Lipcon via shv)
-
     HADOOP-7861. changes2html.pl generates links to HADOOP, HDFS, and MAPREDUCE
     jiras. (shv)