diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 51db2e5c329..468f6e473ea 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-8117. Upgrade test build to Surefire 2.12 (todd)
 
+    HADOOP-8290. Remove remaining references to hadoop.native.lib (harsh)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8177. MBeans shouldn't try to register when it fails to create MBeanName.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
index 119fb3c14e4..67254fe7582 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java
@@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ public class TestCodec {
 
     // Don't use native libs for this test.
     Configuration conf = new Configuration();
-    conf.setBoolean("hadoop.native.lib", false);
+    conf.setBoolean(CommonConfigurationKeys.IO_NATIVE_LIB_AVAILABLE_KEY,
+                    false);
     assertFalse("ZlibFactory is using native libs against request",
                 ZlibFactory.isNativeZlibLoaded(conf));
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
index a9df13752d1..6aa685da5fb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/file/tfile/TestTFileSeqFileComparison.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
@@ -237,7 +238,8 @@ public class TestTFileSeqFileComparison extends TestCase {
     public SeqFileAppendable(FileSystem fs, Path path, int osBufferSize,
         String compress, int minBlkSize) throws IOException {
       Configuration conf = new Configuration();
-      conf.setBoolean("hadoop.native.lib", true);
+      conf.setBoolean(CommonConfigurationKeys.IO_NATIVE_LIB_AVAILABLE_KEY,
+                      true);
 
       CompressionCodec codec = null;
       if ("lzo".equals(compress)) {