diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9f3cb1999f5..d08b1879665 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10954. Adding site documents of hadoop-tools (Masatake Iwasaki 
     via aw)
 
+    HADOOP-10731. Remove @date JavaDoc comment in ProgramDriver class (Henry 
+    Saputra via aw)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-10838. Byte array native checksumming. (James Thomas via todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ProgramDriver.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ProgramDriver.java
index fb018cf8631..347e5087eaa 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ProgramDriver.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ProgramDriver.java
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ public class ProgramDriver {
   /**
    * A description of a program based on its class and a 
    * human-readable description.
-   * @date april 2006
    */
   Map<String, ProgramDescription> programs;