diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f160f88ee62..834233a3b93 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Release 0.23-PB - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7957. Classes deriving GetGroupsBase should be able to override 
     proxy creation. (jitendra)
 
+    HADOOP-7968. Errant println left in RPC.getHighestSupportedProtocol (Sho Shimauchi via harsh)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-7695. RPC.stopProxy can throw unintended exception while logging
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/RPC.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/RPC.java
index cf597468682..321c1d8ef3f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/RPC.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/RPC.java
@@ -791,7 +791,10 @@ public class RPC {
        String protocolName) {    
      Long highestVersion = 0L;
      ProtoClassProtoImpl highest = null;
- System.out.println("Size of protoMap for " + rpcKind + " =" + getProtocolImplMap(rpcKind).size());
+     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+       LOG.debug("Size of protoMap for " + rpcKind + " ="
+           + getProtocolImplMap(rpcKind).size());
+     }
      for (Map.Entry<ProtoNameVer, ProtoClassProtoImpl> pv : 
            getProtocolImplMap(rpcKind).entrySet()) {
        if (pv.getKey().protocol.equals(protocolName)) {