diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b2b903dea55..3b64f4fdae6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12296. when setnetgrent returns 0 in linux, exception should be
     thrown (Chang Li via jlowe)
 
+    HADOOP-12545. Hadoop javadoc has broken links for AccessControlList,
+    ImpersonationProvider, DefaultImpersonationProvider, and DistCp.
+    (Arshad Mohammad via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
index 2452a952ded..e1060e2196d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authorize/package-info.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HBase", "HDFS", "MapReduce"})
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 package org.apache.hadoop.security.authorize;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
index 60ac042c5c3..89e6013b135 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
@@ -15,7 +15,4 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-@InterfaceAudience.Private
 package org.apache.hadoop.tools;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
index 92278ed2e1f..9c59b85ab35 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/package-info.java
@@ -23,4 +23,6 @@
  *
  * @version 2
  */
-package org.apache.hadoop.tools;
\ No newline at end of file
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+package org.apache.hadoop.tools;
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;