diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 22a30aa454d..894e7625d7e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -885,6 +885,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9514. TestDistributedFileSystem.testDFSClientPeerWriteTimeout failing;
     exception being swallowed. (Wei-Chiu Chuang via Yongjun Zhang)
 
+    HDFS-9535. Newly completed blocks in IBR should not be considered
+    under-replicated too quickly. (Mingliang Liu via jing9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
index 2c629a4efd0..9630c8ad9a6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/BlockManager.java
@@ -2677,6 +2677,7 @@ private Block addStoredBlock(final BlockInfo block,
 
     if(storedBlock.getBlockUCState() == BlockUCState.COMMITTED &&
         numLiveReplicas >= minReplication) {
+      addExpectedReplicasToPending(storedBlock);
       completeBlock(storedBlock, false);
     } else if (storedBlock.isComplete() && result == AddBlockResult.ADDED) {
       // check whether safe replication is reached for the block