diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0f9f6008fb7..38d65d05683 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-3193. FileInputFormat doesn't read files recursively in the
     input path dir (Devaraj K via jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5440. TestCopyCommitter Fails on JDK7 (Robert Parker via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.1.0-beta - 2013-08-06
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
@@ -1273,6 +1275,8 @@ Release 0.23.10 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5419. TestSlive is getting FileNotFound Exception (Robert Parker
     via jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5440. TestCopyCommitter Fails on JDK7 (Robert Parker via jlowe)
+
 Release 0.23.9 - 2013-07-08
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestCopyCommitter.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestCopyCommitter.java
index 82736f4d3cb..10e09893f69 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestCopyCommitter.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestCopyCommitter.java
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ public class TestCopyCommitter {
       Assert.fail("Preserve status failure");
     } finally {
       TestDistCpUtils.delete(fs, "/tmp1");
+      conf.unset(DistCpConstants.CONF_LABEL_PRESERVE_STATUS);
     }
 
   }