diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9e1bf59cf46..339ccfb258e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -491,6 +491,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11171 Enable using a proxy server to connect to S3a.
     (Thomas Demoor via stevel)
 
+    HADOOP-11489 Dropping dependency on io.netty from hadoop-nfs' pom.xml
+    (Ted Yu via ozawa)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11323. WritableComparator#compare keeps reference to byte array.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/pom.xml
index e30a482edf6..409ed757b10 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/pom.xml
@@ -82,11 +82,6 @@
       <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>