diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 805258f566d..79df6e07245 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -723,6 +723,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9220. Unnecessary transition to standby in ActiveStandbyElector.
     (tom and todd via todd)
 
+    HADOOP-9563. Fix incompatibility introduced by HADOOP-9523.
+    (Tian Hong Wang via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName.java
index 819a9216bd9..24846f849a5 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName.java
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
  * A helper class for getting build-info of the java-vm. 
  * 
  */
-@InterfaceAudience.Private
+@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HBase"})
 @InterfaceStability.Unstable
 public class PlatformName {
   /**
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ public class PlatformName {
   public static final boolean IBM_JAVA = JAVA_VENDOR_NAME.contains("IBM");
   
   public static void main(String[] args) {
-    System.out.println("platform name: " + PLATFORM_NAME);
-    System.out.println("java vendor name: " + JAVA_VENDOR_NAME);
+    System.out.println(PLATFORM_NAME);
   }
 }