diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/pom.xml
index 6e92bd44840..d1f103e1254 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs-client</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 47c27382658..622e8dd7b64 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1189,6 +1189,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-9215. Suppress the RAT warnings in hdfs-native-client module. (wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-9222. Add hadoop-hdfs-client as a dependency of
+    hadoop-hdfs-native-client. (Mingliang Liu via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES