diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 7c2072693f5..eb86fdb4b1e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ Release 2.1.0-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5274. Bring back SecureShuffleUtils.toHex in mapreduce for binary
     compatibility with 1.x APIs. (Mayank Bansal via vinodkv)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5300. Fix backward incompatibility for
+    o.a.h.mapreduce.filecache.DistributedCache. (Zhijie Shen via acmurthy)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     MAPREDUCE-4974. Optimising the LineRecordReader initialize() method 
@@ -350,9 +353,6 @@ Release 2.1.0-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5296. Fix backward incompatibility for JobControl by adding the
     omitted addJob. (Zhijie Shen via acmurthy) 
 
-    MAPREDUCE-5300. Fix backward incompatibility for
-    o.a.h.mapreduce.filecache.DistributedCache. (Zhijie Shen via acmurthy)
-
   BREAKDOWN OF HADOOP-8562 SUBTASKS
 
     MAPREDUCE-4739. Some MapReduce tests fail to find winutils.