diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1fe62596eef..03a844f8438 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12416. Trash messages should be handled by Logger instead of being
     delivered on System.out. (Mingliang Liu via aajisaka)
 
+    HADOOP-12552. Fix undeclared/unused dependency to httpclient (iwasakims)
+
   NEW FEATURES
 
     HADOOP-11226. Add a configuration to set ipc.Client's traffic class with
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index ccbe0d647e6..28fcdaf3e40 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-openstack/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-openstack/pom.xml
index 3e6ed6f4dad..18d754f6200 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-openstack/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-openstack/pom.xml
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+      <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>