diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 21652589fb2..465a3ad6a76 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7998. CheckFileSystem does not correctly honor setVerifyChecksum
     (Daryn Sharp via bobby)
 
-    HADOOP-7851. Configuration.getClasses() never returns the default value. 
-                 (Uma Maheswara Rao G via amarrk)
-
     HADOOP-7606. Upgrade Jackson to version 1.7.1 to match the version required
     by Jersey (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
 
@@ -258,6 +255,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
 
    HADOOP-7841. Run tests with non-secure random. (tlipcon)
 
+    HADOOP-7851. Configuration.getClasses() never returns the default value. 
+                 (Uma Maheswara Rao G via amarrk)
+
    HADOOP-7787. Make source tarball use conventional name.
    (Bruno Mahé via tomwhite)