diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/CMakeLists.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 9dacec78bf0..fb26bec7e7c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8 FATAL_ERROR)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../../../hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common)
 include(HadoopCommon)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f2d5f7c4ca7..5d8d8bebcc7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2042,6 +2042,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8855. Webhdfs client leaks active NameNode connections.
     (Xiaobing Zhou via jitendra) 
 
+    HDFS-9235. hdfs-native-client build getting errors when built with cmake
+    2.6. (Eric Payne via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES