diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c5626396967..af036e09f23 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-11746. rewrite test-patch.sh (aw)
 
+    HADOOP-12416. Trash messages should be handled by Logger instead of being
+    delivered on System.out. (Mingliang Liu via aajisaka)
+
   NEW FEATURES
 
     HADOOP-11226. Add a configuration to set ipc.Client's traffic class with
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/Trash.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/Trash.java
index aae5cf749b4..13d0ec30ee7 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/Trash.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/Trash.java
@@ -94,8 +94,7 @@ public class Trash extends Configured {
     Trash trash = new Trash(fullyResolvedFs, conf);
     boolean success = trash.moveToTrash(fullyResolvedPath);
     if (success) {
-      System.out.println("Moved: '" + p + "' to trash at: " +
-          trash.getCurrentTrashDir() );
+      LOG.info("Moved: '" + p + "' to trash at: " + trash.getCurrentTrashDir());
     }
     return success;
   }